Electronic Infrastructure for Thalassaemia Research Network

The ITHANET portal is a community website dedicated to thalassaemia and other haemoglobinopathies, offering a range of services including continuous updates on the upcoming conferences, interesting recent publications and talks. It also incorporates a database of organizations and networks concerned with haemoglobinopathies world-wide, and a wiki-based text interface to establish a growing, interactive education environment.

In addition, the ITHANET Portal also houses one of the largest and most recent haemoglobinopathy mutation, frequency and genotype-phenotype databases, offering flexible search and display functionalities as a comprehensible and versatile reference for clinicians and researchers.

The ITHANET Portal, representing an expanding resource for clinicians and researchers dealing with haemoglobinopathies, and a port of call for patients of haemoglobinopathies in search of professional advice. It is a comprehensive resource for all information relating to the haemoglobinopathies, and as an interactive community tool invites contributions to its content, including announcements, details of organizations and genotype-phenotype information.