URL: | http://xbase.bham.ac.uk |
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Description: | xBASE is a genome database aimed at helping laboratory-based bacteriologists make best use of bacterial genome sequence data, with a particular emphasis on comparative genomics. |
Year founded: | 2006 |
Last update: | 2007-11-05 |
Version: | v2.0 |
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Country/Region: | United Kingdom |
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University/Institution: | University of Birmingham |
Address: | Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT United Kingdom |
City: | Birmingham |
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Country/Region: | United Kingdom |
Contact name (PI/Team): | Mark J. Pallen |
Contact email (PI/Helpdesk): | m.pallen@bham.ac.uk |
xBASE2: a comprehensive resource for comparative bacterial genomics. [PMID: 17984072]
xBASE is a genome database aimed at helping laboratory-based bacteriologists make best use of bacterial genome sequence data, with a particular emphasis on comparative genomics. The latest version, xBASE 2.0 (http://xbase.bham.ac.uk), now provides comprehensive coverage of all bacterial genomes and features an updated modularized backend and an improved user interface, which includes a taxonomy browser and a powerful full-text search facility. |
xBASE, a collection of online databases for bacterial comparative genomics. [PMID: 16381881]
The schema of the previously described Escherischia coli database coliBASE has been applied to a number of other bacterial taxa, under the collective name xBASE. The new databases include CampyDB for Campylobacter, Helicobacter and Wolinella; PseudoDB for pseudomonads; ClostriDB for clostridia; RhizoDB for Rhizobium and Sinorhizobium; and MycoDB, for Mycobacterium, Streptomyces and related organisms. The databases provide user friendly access to annotation and genome comparisons through a web-based graphical interface. Newly developed features include whole genome displays, 'painting' of genes according to properties such as GC content, a pattern search system to identify conserved motifs and batch BLAST searching of every protein encoded by a region. Examples of how the databases have been, and continue to be, used to generate hypotheses for subsequent laboratory investigation are presented. xBASE is available online at http://xbase.bham.ac.uk. |