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3D-Genomics
(Imperial College London)
  • database that contains protein structure and function annotation across different genomes
  • current focus:
    • identification of transmembrane regions, coiled-coils, low complexity regions, Prosite-patterns, PFAM and SCOP domains, repeats, homologous sequences and secondary structure prediction
  • structural information (fold classification) assigned to genome sequences via homology (using BLAST, PSI-BLAST and 3D-PSSM)
ACLAME - A Classification of Genetic Mobile Elements
(SCMBB)
  • database dedicates to the collection and classification of mobile genetic elements (MGEs) from various sources, comprising all known phage genomes, plasmids and transposons
BacMap - Genome Atlas
(University of Alberta)
Bio-Dictionary-based Annotations of Complete Genomes
(IBM)
CAZy - Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes
(AFMB-CNRS)
CMR Genomes Arranged by Taxonomy
(TIGR)
CUBIC
(Columbia University Bioinformatics Center)
DDBJ - DNA Data Bank of Japan
(National Institute of Genetics)
Ensemble Genome Browser
(Ensemble)
  • joint project between EMBL-EBI and the Sanger Institute
    • Ensemble Trace Server
      • permanent archive for single pass DNA sequencing reads and associated traces and quality values
Entrez Genome
(NCBI)
  • contains genome data of all three main domains of life - bacteria, archaea, and eukaryota, as well as many viruses and organelles
  • genomes represent both completely sequenced organisms and those for which sequencing is in progress
    • Borrelia, Leptospira and Treponema genomes
ERGO™ Bioinformatics Suite
(Integrated Genomics Inc.)
  • genome analysis and discovery suite is an integration of biological data from genomics, biochemistry, high-throughput expression profiling, genetics and peer-reviewed journals to achieve a comprehensive analysis of genes and genomes
  • ERGO combines pattern-based analysis with comparative genomics by visualizing genes within the context of regulation, expression profiling, phylogenetic clusters, fusion events, networked cellular pathways and chromosomal neighborhoods of other functionally related genes
    • Borrelia, Leptospira and Treponema genomes
ExPASy Proteomics Server
(Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)
FusionDB
(CNRS)
  • database of bacterial and archaeal gene fusion events - also known as Rosetta stones
Gene3D
(UCL, University College London)
  • supplementary to the CATH database (protein structure classification)
  • contains proteins from complete genomes which have been clustered into protein families and annotated with CATH domains, Pfam domains and functional information from KEGG, GO, COG, Affymetrix and STRINGS
    • Borrelia burgdorferi, Leptospira interrogans serovar lai str. 56601 and Treponema pallidum
GeneQuiz
(EMBL-EBI Cambridge, UK & CNB-CSIS Madrid, Spain)
  • integrated system for large-scale biological sequence analysis, that goes from a protein sequence to a biochemical function, using a variety of search and analysis methods and up-to-date protein and DNA databases
genomemine
(Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Oxford, UK)
  • contains published genomes from bacteria, plasmids, organelles, and viruses
Genome Annotation Browser
(Health Protection Agency, UK)
  • scans the annotation of one of the completed genomes listed at the NCBI site
Genome Atlas Database
(Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark)
  • DNA structural atlases for complete chromosomes and genomes
Genome-Tools
(Stanford University & SourceForge)
GNN - Genome News Network
(J. Craig Venter Institute)
  • genomes of more than 180 organisms have been sequenced since 1995
  • GNN includes descriptions of these organisms and has links to sequencing centers and scientific abstracts
GTD - Genomic Threading Database
(UCL, University College London)
  • contains structural annotations of proteomes, translated from the genomes of key organisms (GenTHREADER - annotation software)
GtRNA - The Genomic tRNA Database
(University of California, UCSC RNA Center)
HGT-DB - Horizontal Gene Transfer Database
(URV, Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
In silico Experiments with Complete Genomes
(University of the Basque Country)
  • different tools for in silico experiments with complete genomes (PCR amplification, ORF search etc.)
Integr8
(EMBL-EBI)
IslandPath
(Simon Fraser University)
lsu rRNA Database
(University of Gent)
  • database on the structure of lsu ribosomal subunit RNA (lsu rRNA)
  • includes indications of secondary structure elements for each sequence, based on the adopted rRNA secondary structure, which in turn is corroborated by the observation of compensating substitutions in the alignment
KEGG - Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes
(Kyoto University Bioinformatics Center)
  • bioinformatics ressource (chemical, genomic and pathway information)
LeptoList
(Pasteur Institute)
  • constructed around a database dedicated to the analysis of the genome of Leptospira interrogans serovar Lai
Magpie Automated Genomics Project Investigation Environment
(University of Calgary)
  • software package for the automated curation and presentation of DNA and protein sequences
  • distills the results of multiple database searches for each sequence (e.g. expressed sequence tags, ESTs) or subsequence (e.g. open reading frames, ORFs, in bacterial genomic DNA) into a summary page that facilitates interpretation of genes' biological roles and origins
MBGD - Microbial Genome Microsatellite Database
(Field Research Lab, CEH Oxford)
  • information about Borrelia, Leptospira & Treponema
MEROPS - Peptidase Database
(Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)
MGCUD - Microbial Genome Codon Usage Database
(Forsyth Institute & Northeastern University)
  • information about Spirochaetes (Borrelia, Leptospira & Treponema)
ORALGEN - Oral Pathogen Sequence Databases
(Los Alamos National Laboratory Bioscience Division)
PathoGene
(University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center & RCE Region VI Computational Biology Group)
  • web based program designed to locate a user specified coding sequence (CDS) in a microbial, viral, or fungal genome and build primers for it using
    • information about Borrelia, Leptospira & Treponema
PEDANT - Protein Extraction, Description, and Analysis Tool
(MIPS & BioMAX)
PGD - Plasmid Genome Database
(Centre of Ecology and Hydrology-Oxford & Danish Technical University)
  • collate biological and genomic data for all bacterial plasmids in the hopes of enabling rapid, interrogation of both meta- and genomic data
  • data maintained includes access to all plasmid genomes, information on core genomic features like number of ORFs, and structural maps (Genome Atlas)
PIR - Protein Information Resource
(Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC)
  • integrated public bioinformatics resource that supports genomic and proteomic research and scientific studies
PPD - Proteome Profile Database
(Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore)
  • database on protein length distribution of genomes
  • key components:
    • classify proteins into groups based on their lengths,
    • calculate the percentage change in proteins of a specific length among the chosen organisms, and
    • amino acid composition profiles online
PSORTb
(Brinkman Laboratory, Simon Fraser University)
  • program for bacterial protein subcellular localization prediction
    • information for Spirochaetales
      (Borrelia burgdorferi B31, Borrelia garinii PB1, Leptospira interrogans serovar Copenhageni str. Fiocruz LI-130 chromosome 1 & 2, Leptospira interrogans serovar laistr. 56601 chromosome 1 & 2, Treponema denticola ATCC 35405, Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum str. Nichols)
repairGenes
(Centre for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience, University of Oslo)
rrndb - Ribosomal RNA Operon Copy Number Database
(Michigan State University)
  • information pertaining to the number of rRNA operons contained on the genomes of prokaryotic microorganisms in a phylogenetic context
STD Sequence Database
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
  • includes both compilation and analysis of molecular sequence informtaion pertaining to sexually transmitted bacteria and viruses
  • dynamic graphics and extended analyses available for all organisms
Superfamily - HMM Library and Genome Assignments Server
(MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge & Stanford University, USA)
Taxonomy Browser Database
(Michigan State University)
  • original data analysis tool for visualizing the taxonomic relationships among the prokaryotes
  • relationships are based on the evolutionary distances between the organisms (measured by using the small subunit ribosomal RNA; SSU rRNA)
Taxonomy Browser Database
(NCBI)
Treponema Molecular Genetics Server
(University of Texas Medical School, Houston)
UniProt - Universal Protein Resource
(EBI)
  • world's most comprehensive catalog of information on proteins
  • central repository of protein sequence and function created by joining the information contained in Swiss-Prot, TrEMBL, and PIR
VIMSS Comparative Genomics
(Virtual Institute for Microbial Stress and Survival)
  • VIMSS microbial comparative genomics website is designed specifically to facilitate multi-species comparison
  • highlights include the operon and regulon predictions, the multi-species genome browser, the VertiGo gene ontology browser, KEGG metabolic pathway viewer and the Bioinformatics Workbench
ViruloGenome
(University of Birmingham)
  • web resource allows users to exploit data from complete and incomplete genome sequencing projects (BLAST and PSI-BLAST searches, sequence retrieval and visualisation of genome sequence data)
Z Curve Database of Genomes
(Tianjin University, China)
  • a graphic representation of genome sequences (unique 3D curve representation for a DNA sequence in the sense that each can be uniquely reconstructed given the other)
    • Z curves for Borrelia burgdorferi and Treponema pallidum
 
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