Orphanet
a comprehensive information
service for RD
Inserm, US14
Ana Rath, Marc Hanauer
ana.rath@inserm.fr
www.orpha.net
Objectives
• Have an overall knowledge on what Orphanet
is
• How to access Orphanet tutorials
• Know how to search by disease, by gene
• Know how to find a centre of expertise, a
patient organisation, information on research
and drugs
• Know how to find a collection of texts for a
given disease
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The RD pyramid
Awareness
Knowledge
Awareness
Knowledge
Diagnostic suspicion?
Knowledge
Diagnostic suspicion
Diagnosis
Expertise
Diagnostic suspicion
Means to diagnose: NGS…
Research
Information
Assistance to diagnosis
Find an expert
Phenotype-Genotype
…
Integrated ata for research
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What is Orphanet?
• Orphanet is a knowledge base both for healthcare and for
research.
• Orphanet collects, integrates, produces and disseminates
added-value information and data in the field of rare
diseases.
– expert-reviewed,
– manually curated and
– integrated to other resources.
• Orphanet is the reference for the nomenclature and
classification of rare diseases (the only specific resource) and
has a normative role in this domain.
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Give a name to each disease : ORPHA nomenclature
www.orphadata.org
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Orphanet European knowledge base for RD
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Providing information
Providing data
Massive agregated data in a computer-friendly format
International, multilingual website
Intended to a multi-stakeholders audience
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The Orphanet Network
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Orphanet users
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Health
professional 48%
Patient/ family/
patient
organisation 22%
Research 3%
Industry 2%
Health care
manager / policy
maker 1%
Education/
communication2
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Student 18%
Other 4%
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Orphanet provides information and data to a global audience
Orphanet
Orphadata
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A common language across fields
Orphanet central
nomenclature
Research
Registries/Cohorts
Care
Health Information
System (EHRs)
HGNC
OMIM
UniProt
Reactome
Ensembl
Genatlas
IUPHAR
OMIM
ICD10/11
UMLS
MedDRA
Genes
DisabilitiesPhenotypes
SNOMED
Terminologies
OD
ODrugs
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Different applications for different users
Orphanet
database
orpha.net
Orphanet
Report Series
Ontologies
orphadata.org
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Provide scientific and political RD news
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Give timely emergency recommendations
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Orphanet Disabilities
Provide information to health-social sector
In French only
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Tutorials
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