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Pre_GI

General information

URL: http://pregi.bi.up.ac.za/index.php
Full name: Predicted Genomic Islands database
Description: Pre_GI is a global map of ontological links between horizontally transferred genomic islands in bacterial and archaeal genomes.
Year founded: 2015
Last update: 2015-09-29
Version: v2015
Accessibility:
Accessible
Country/Region: South Africa

Classification & Tag

Data type:
DNA
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Contact information

University/Institution: University of Pretoria
Address: Pretoria, Gauteng 0002, South Africa
City: Pretoria
Province/State: Gauteng
Country/Region: South Africa
Contact name (PI/Team): Oleg N. Reva
Contact email (PI/Helpdesk): oleg.reva@up.ac.za

Publications

26200753
Pre_GI: a global map of ontological links between horizontally transferred genomic islands in bacterial and archaeal genomes. [PMID: 26200753]
Pierneef R, Cronje L, Bezuidt O, Reva ON.

The Predicted Genomic Islands database (Pre_GI) is a comprehensive repository of prokaryotic genomic islands (islands, GIs) freely accessible at http://pregi.bi.up.ac.za/index.php. Pre_GI, Version 2015, catalogues 26?744 islands identified in 2407 bacterial/archaeal chromosomes and plasmids. It provides an easy-to-use interface which allows users the ability to query against the database with a variety of fields, parameters and associations. Pre_GI is constructed to be a web-resource for the analysis of ontological roads between islands and cartographic analysis of the global fluxes of mobile genetic elements through bacterial and archaeal taxonomic borders. Comparison of newly identified islands against Pre_GI presents an alternative avenue to identify their ontology, origin and relative time of acquisition. Pre_GI aims to aid research on horizontal transfer events and materials through providing data and tools for holistic investigation of migration of genes through ecological niches and taxonomic boundaries. © The Author(s) 2015. Published by Oxford University Press.

Database (Oxford). 2015:2015() | 12 Citations (from Europe PMC, 2025-12-13)

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4943/6895 (28.325%)
4943
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12
Citations
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Created on: 2016-01-15
Curated by:
Shixiang Sun [2016-03-28]