| URL: | http://bacmap.wishartlab.com/ |
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| Description: | BacMap is an interactive visual database containing hundreds of fully labeled,zoomable,and searchable maps of bacterial genomes. |
| Year founded: | 2005 |
| Last update: | NA |
| Version: | v1.0 |
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| Country/Region: | Canada |
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| University/Institution: | University of Alberta |
| Address: | Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2E8 |
| City: | Edmonton |
| Province/State: | AB |
| Country/Region: | Canada |
| Contact name (PI/Team): | David S. Wishart |
| Contact email (PI/Helpdesk): | david.wishart@ualberta.ca |
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BacMap: an up-to-date electronic atlas of annotated bacterial genomes. [PMID: 22135301]
Originally released in 2005, BacMap is an electronic, interactive atlas of fully sequenced bacterial genomes. It contains fully labeled, zoomable and searchable chromosome maps for essentially all sequenced prokaryotic (archaebacterial and eubacterial) species. Each map can be zoomed to the level of individual genes and each gene is hyperlinked to a richly annotated gene card. The latest release of BacMap (http://bacmap.wishartlab.com/) now contains data for more than 1700 bacterial species (~10× more than the 2005 release), corresponding to more than 2800 chromosome and plasmid maps. All bacterial genome maps are now supplemented with separate prophage genome maps as well as separate tRNA and rRNA maps. Each bacterial chromosome entry in BacMap also contains graphs and tables on a variety of gene and protein statistics. Likewise, every bacterial species entry contains a bacterial 'biography' card, with taxonomic details, phenotypic details, textual descriptions and images (when available). Improved data browsing and searching tools have also been added to allow more facile filtering, sorting and display of the chromosome maps and their contents. |
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BacMap: an interactive picture atlas of annotated bacterial genomes. [PMID: 15608206]
BacMap is an interactive visual database containing fully labeled, zoomable and searchable chromosome maps from more than 170 bacterial (archaebacterial and eubacterial) species. It uses a recently developed visualization tool (CGView) to generate high-resolution circular genome maps from sequence feature information. Each map includes an interface that allows the image to be expanded and rotated. In the default view, identified genes are drawn to scale and colored according to coding directions. When a region of interest is expanded, gene labels are displayed. Each label is hyperlinked to a custom 'gene card' which provides several fields of information concerning the corresponding DNA and protein sequences. Each genome map is searchable via a local BLAST search and a gene name/synonym search. BacMap is freely available at http://wishart.biology.ualberta.ca/BacMap/. |