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MicrobeDB

General information

URL: http://github.com/mlangill/microbedb
Full name: a locally maintainable database of microbial genomic sequences
Description: MicrobeDB provides a foundation for such projects by the automation of downloading published, completed bacterial and archaeal genomes from key sources, parsing annotations of all genomes (both public and private) into a local database, and allowing interaction with the database through an easy to use programming interface.
Year founded: 2012
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Accessibility:
Accessible
Country/Region: Canada

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Data type:
DNA
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Contact information

University/Institution: Dalhousie University
Address: Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
City: Halifax
Province/State: Nova Scotia
Country/Region: Canada
Contact name (PI/Team): Morgan Langille
Contact email (PI/Helpdesk): morgan.g.i.langille@gmail.com

Publications

22576174
MicrobeDB: a locally maintainable database of microbial genomic sequences. [PMID: 22576174]
Langille MG, Laird MR, Hsiao WW, Chiu TA, Eisen JA, Brinkman FS.

Analysis of microbial genomes often requires the general organization and comparison of tens to thousands of genomes both from public repositories and unpublished sources. MicrobeDB provides a foundation for such projects by the automation of downloading published, completed bacterial and archaeal genomes from key sources, parsing annotations of all genomes (both public and private) into a local database, and allowing interaction with the database through an easy to use programming interface. MicrobeDB creates a simple to use, easy to maintain, centralized local resource for various large-scale comparative genomic analyses and a back-end for future microbial application design.
AVAILABILITY: MicrobeDB is freely available under the GNU-GPL at: http://github.com/mlangill/microbedb/

Bioinformatics. 2012:28(14) | 15 Citations (from Europe PMC, 2025-12-13)

Ranking

All databases:
4997/6895 (27.542%)
Gene genome and annotation:
1508/2021 (25.433%)
4997
Total Rank
15
Citations
1.154
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Created on: 2018-01-29
Curated by:
Pei Wang [2018-02-24]