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-# mpld
-A database of Mitochondrial Proteins Linked with Diseases
+# mitoPADdb
+A database of Mitochondrial Proteins Associated with Diseases
+
+The mitoPADdb is a manually curated database that provides comprehensive information on *813 mitochondrial 
+protein-encoding (MPE) genes* associated with *1793 disease terms*. It contains information on mutations 
+and expressional variations of MPE genes at both the mRNA and protein levels. The database classifies the 
+diseases linked with mitochondrial proteins into *14 broad categories*.
+
+## About mitoPADdb
+mitoPADdb is available at: [http://bicresources.jcbose.ac.in/ssaha4/mitopaddb](http://bicresources.jcbose.ac.in/ssaha4/mitopaddb).
+
+The data statistics of mitoPADdb is available in the [Statistics](http://bicresources.jcbose.ac.in/ssaha4/mitopaddb/statistics.html)
+page. Please refer to the [Help](http://bicresources.jcbose.ac.in/ssaha4/mitopaddb/help.html) page for 
+understanding the data and usage of mitoPADdb. It allows users to access the data using two ways - 
+
+1. **Search option**: The search option allows the users top search the database with Gene symbol, UniProt
+   accession, or both.
+
+   The search option provides information about *18356 mutations*, *1286 expressional variations* (mRNA
+   and protein levels) with experimental samples and techniques, and associated diseases with source
+   identifiers.
+
+3. **Browse options**: The browse options allow users to access these data along with disease-gene-pathway
+   links and differential genes’ expression heatmap across *317 disease studies*, in following ways.
+
+   * Gene symbol
+   * Pathway name
+   * Disease category name
+   * Disease category-wise MPE gene expression heatmap
+   * Disease category-pairwise comparison of MPE gene expression heatmap
+
+## Team
+* **Jagannath Das** *([[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]))*<br/>
+  Senior Research Fellow,<br/>
+  Department of Biological Sciences,<br/>
+  Bose Institute, Kolkata, India.<br/>
+* **Sudipto Bhattacharjee** *([[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]))*<br/>
+  Ph.D. Scholar,<br/>
+  Department of Computer Science and Engineering,<br/>
+  University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.<br/>
+* **Dr. Sudipto Saha** *([[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]))*<br/>
+  Associate Professor,<br/>
+  Department of Biological Sciences,<br/>
+  Bose Institute, Kolkata, India.
+
+*Please contact Dr. Sudipto Saha regarding any further queries.*