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http://animal.dna.affrc.go.jp/agp/index.html

Database of comparative gene mapping between species to assist the mapping of the genes related to phenotypic traits in livestock. The linkage maps, cytogenetic maps, polymerase chain reaction primers of pig, cattle, mouse and human, and their references have been included in the database, and the correspondence among species have been stipulated in the database. AGP is an animal genome database developed on a Unix workstation and maintained by a relational database management system. It is a joint project of National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS) and Institute of the Society for Techno-innovation of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (STAFF-Institute), under cooperation with other related research institutes. AGP also contains the Pig Expression Data Explorer (PEDE), a database of porcine EST collections derived from full-length cDNA libraries and full-length sequences of the cDNA clones picked from the EST collection. The EST sequences have been clustered and assembled, and their similarity to sequences in RefSeq, and UniGene determined. The PEDE database system was constructed to store sequences and similarity data of swine full-length cDNA libraries and to make them available to users. It provides interfaces for keyword and ID searches of BLAST results and enables users to obtain sequence data and names of clones of interest. Putative SNPs in EST assemblies have been classified according to breed specificity and their effect on coding amino acids, and the assemblies are equipped with an SNP search interface. The database contains porcine nucleotide sequences and cDNA clones that are ready for analyses such as expression in mammalian cells, because of their high likelihood of containing full-length CDS. PEDE will be useful for researchers who want to explore genes that may be responsible for traits such as disease susceptibility. The database also offers information regarding major and minor porcine-specific antigens, which might be investigated in regard to the use of pigs as models in various medical research applications.

Proper citation: Animal Genome Database (RRID:SCR_008165) Copy   

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http://www.uni-wh.de/pcogr

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on August 20,2019.The COG-database has become a powerful tool in the field of comparative genomics. The construction of this data-base is based on sequence homologies of proteins from different completely sequenced genomes. Highly homologous proteins are assigned to clusters of orthologous groups. The updated collection of orthologous protein sets for prokaryotes and eukaryotes is expected to be a useful platform for functional annotation of newly sequenced genomes, including those of complex eukaryotes, and genome-wide evolutionary studies. The availability of multiple, essentially complete genome sequences of prokaryotes and eukaryotes spurred both the demand and the opportunity for the construction of an evolutionary classification of genes from these genomes. Such a classification system based on orthologous relationships between genes appears to be a natural framework for comparative genomics and should facilitate both functional annotation of genomes and large-scale evolutionary studies. Here is a major update of the previously developed system for delineation of Clusters of Orthologous Groups of proteins (COGs) from the sequenced genomes of prokaryotes and unicellular eukaryotes and the construction of clusters of predicted orthologs for 7 eukaryotic genomes, which we named KOGs after eukaryotic orthologous groups. The COG collection currently consists of 138,458 proteins, which form 4873 COGs and comprise 75% of the 185,505 (predicted) proteins encoded in 66 genomes of unicellular organisms. The eukaryotic orthologous groups (KOGs) include proteins from 7 eukaryotic genomes: three animals (the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and Homo sapiens), one plant, Arabidopsis thaliana, two fungi (Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Schizosaccharomyces pombe), and the intracellular microsporidian parasite Encephalitozoon cuniculi. The current KOG set consists of 4852 clusters of orthologs, which include 59,838 proteins, or approximately 54% of the analyzed eukaryotic 110,655 gene products. Compared to the coverage of the prokaryotic genomes with COGs, a considerably smaller fraction of eukaryotic genes could be included into the KOGs; addition of new eukaryotic genomes is expected to result in substantial increase in the coverage of eukaryotic genomes with KOGs. Examination of the phyletic patterns of KOGs reveals a conserved core represented in all analyzed species and consisting of approximately 20% of the KOG set. This conserved portion of the KOG set is much greater than the ubiquitous portion of the COG set (approximately 1% of the COGs). In part, this difference is probably due to the small number of included eukaryotic genomes, but it could also reflect the relative compactness of eukaryotes as a clade and the greater evolutionary stability of eukaryotic genomes.

Proper citation: Phylogenetic Clusters of Orthologous Groups Ranking (RRID:SCR_008223) Copy   

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http://www.nisc.nih.gov/projects/comp_seq.html

Generates data for use in developing and refining computational tools for comparing genomic sequence from multiple species. The NISC Comparative Sequencing Program's goal is to establish a data resource consisting of sequences for the same set of targeted genomic regions derived from multiple animal species. The broader program includes plans for a diverse set of analytical studies using the generated sequence and the publication of a series of papers describing the results of those analysis in peer-reviewed journals in a timely fashion. Experimentally, this project involves the shotgun sequencing of mapped BAC clones. For each BAC, an assembly is first performed when a sufficient number of sequence reads have been generated to provide full shotgun coverage of the clone. At that time, the assembled sequence is submitted to the HTGS division of GenBank. Subsequent refinements of the sequence, including the generation of higher-accuracy finished sequence, results in the updating of the sequence record in GenBank. By immediately submitting our BAC-derived sequences to GenBank, it makes their data available as a public service to allow colleagues to speed up their research, consistent with the now well-established routine of sequencing centers participating in the Human Genome Project. However, at the same time, it has made considerable investment in acquiring these mapping and sequence data, including sizable efforts of graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and other trainees. Furthermore, in most cases, large data sets involving multiple BAC sequences from multiple species must first be generated, often taking many months to accumulate, before the planned analysis can be performed and the resulting papers written and submitted for publication.

Proper citation: Comparative Vertebrate Sequencing (RRID:SCR_008213) Copy   

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http://genome.jgi.doe.gov/programs/metagenomes/index.jsf

Portal providing access to metagenomics projects, data and tools supported by the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI). A primary motivation for metagenomics is that most microbes found in nature exist in complex, interdependent communities and cannot readily be grown in isolation in the laboratory. One can, however, isolate DNA or RNA from the community as a whole, and studies of such communities have revealed a diversity of microbes far beyond those found in culture collections. It is suspected that these uncultivated organisms must harbor considerable as-yet undiscovered genomic, functional, and metabolic features and capabilities. Thus to fully explore microbial genomics, it is imperative that we access the genomes of these elusive players.

Proper citation: Metagenomics Program at JGI (RRID:SCR_008804) Copy   

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http://www.imtech.res.in/raghava/bhairpred/

Bhairpred server is based on machine learning technique SVM using single sequence information, evolutionary profile, predicted and observed secondary structure (as obtained using Psipred and DSSP), predicted and observed accessibility values (as obtainned from Netasa and DSSP). The methods were trained and tested on dataset of 2880 proteins and their performance was evaluated on dataset of 534 proteins used by Thornton (PNAS, 2002). Best prediction results were obtained with hybrid approach that combined prediction results from evolutionary profile, predicted secondary structure and accessibility.

Proper citation: SVM based method for predicting beta hairpin structures in proteins (RRID:SCR_008349) Copy   

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http://bioinfo2.ugr.es/IsoF/isofinder.html

Isofinder is an algorithm running on the web able to predict isochores at the sequence level. Isochores are long genome segments homogeneous in G+C. The algorithm works by moving a sliding pointer from left to right along the DNA sequence and computing the mean G+C values to the left and to the right of the pointer at each point. Additionally, the program checks whether this significance exceeds a probability threshold. If so, the sequence is cut at this point into two subsequences; otherwise, the sequence remains undivided. The procedure continues recursively for each of the two resulting subsequences created by each cut. This leads to the decomposition of a chromosome sequence into long homogeneous genome regions (LHGRs) with well-defined mean G+C contents, each significantly different from the G+C contents of the adjacent LHGRs. Most LHGRs can be identified with Bernardi''s isochores, given their correlation with biological features such as gene density, SINE and LINE (short, long interspersed repetitive elements) densities, recombination rate or single nucleotide polymorphism variability. The resulting isochore maps are available at http://bioinfo2.ugr.es/isochores/, and also at the UCSC Genome Browser (http://genome.cse.ucsc.edu/). Sponsors: Isofinder is funded by Universidad de Granada, Spain.

Proper citation: Isofinder: Isochore Computational Prediction (RRID:SCR_008342) Copy   

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http://lemur.amu.edu.pl/share/php/mirnest/home.php

A database of animal, plant and virus microRNA data maintained at the University of Poznan. The database provides: * 9980 miRNA candiates from 420 animal and plant species predicted in Expressed Sequence Tags * predicted targets for plant candidates * RNA-seq reads mapped to candidates from 29 species * external data from 12 databases that includes sequences, polymorphism, expression and regulation. miRNEST 1.0, it contains miRNA from 563 animals, plants and viruses plant species.

Proper citation: miRNEST (RRID:SCR_008907) Copy   

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http://www.medinfopoli.polimi.it/GFINDer/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on August 16, 2019. Multi-database system providing large-scale lists of user-classified sequence identifiers with genome-scale biological information and functional profiles biologically characterizing the different gene classes in the list. GFINDer automatically retrieves updated annotations of several functional categories from different sources, identifies the categories enriched in each class of a user-classified gene list, and calculates statistical significance values for each category. Moreover, GFINDer enables to functionally classify genes according to mined functional categories and to statistically analyze the obtained classifications, aiding in better interpreting microarray experiment results.

Proper citation: GFINDer: Genome Function INtegrated Discoverer (RRID:SCR_008868) Copy   

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https://www.sanger.ac.uk/collaboration/sequencing-idd-regions-nod-mouse-genome/

Genetic variations associated with type 1 diabetes identified by sequencing regions of the non-obese diabetic (NOD) mouse genome and comparing them with the same areas of a diabetes-resistant C57BL/6J reference mouse allowing identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) or other genomic variations putatively associated with diabetes in mice. Finished clones from the targeted insulin-dependent diabetes (Idd) candidate regions are displayed in the NOD clone sequence section of the website, where they can be downloaded either as individual clone sequences or larger contigs that make up the accession golden path (AGP). All sequences are publicly available via the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration. Two NOD mouse BAC libraries were constructed and the BAC ends sequenced. Clones from the DIL NOD BAC library constructed by RIKEN Genomic Sciences Centre (Japan) in conjunction with the Diabetes and Inflammation Laboratory (DIL) (University of Cambridge) from the NOD/MrkTac mouse strain are designated DIL. Clones from the CHORI-29 NOD BAC library constructed by Pieter de Jong (Children's Hospital, Oakland, California, USA) from the NOD/ShiLtJ mouse strain are designated CHORI-29. All NOD mouse BAC end-sequences have been submitted to the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Consortium (INSDC), deposited in the NCBI trace archive. They have generated a clone map from these two libraries by mapping the BAC end-sequences to the latest assembly of the C57BL/6J mouse reference genome sequence. These BAC end-sequence alignments can then be visualized in the Ensembl mouse genome browser where the alignments of both NOD BAC libraries can be accessed through the Distributed Annotation System (DAS). The Mouse Genomes Project has used the Illumina platform to sequence the entire NOD/ShiLtJ genome and this should help to position unaligned BAC end-sequences to novel non-reference regions of the NOD genome. Further information about the BAC end-sequences, such as their alignment, variation data and Ensembl gene coverage, can be obtained from the NOD mouse ftp site.

Proper citation: Sequencing of Idd regions in the NOD mouse genome (RRID:SCR_001483) Copy   

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http://www.chickest.udel.edu/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on October 28,2025. A chicken EST Web site has been created to provide access to the data, and a set of unique sequences has been deposited with GenBank. This site contains over 40,000 EST sequences from the chicken cDNA libraries in the University of Delaware collection. Users can perform keyword searches, BLAST nucleotide sequences against our database, view clusters of similar or overlapping clones, and order clones. The cDNA and gene sequences of many mammalian cytokines and their receptors are known. However, corresponding information on avian cytokines is limited due to the lack of cross-species activity at the functional level or strong homology at the molecular level. To improve the efficiency of identifying cytokines and novel chicken genes, a directionally cloned cDNA library from T-cell-enriched activated chicken splenocytes was constructed, and the partial sequence of 5251 clones was obtained. Sequence clustering indicates that 2357 (42%) of the clones are present as a single copy, and 2961 are distinct clones, demonstrating the high level of complexity of this library. Comparisons of the sequence data with known DNA sequences in GenBank indicate that approximately 25% of the clones match known chicken genes, 39% have similarity to known genes in other species, and 11% had no match to any sequence in the database. Several previously uncharacterized chicken cytokines and their receptors were present in our library. This collection provides a useful database for cataloging genes expressed in T cells and a valuable resource for future investigations of gene expression in avian immunology. Therefore, the Chick EST database was created.

Proper citation: UD Chick EST Project (RRID:SCR_002236) Copy   

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http://mgc.nci.nih.gov/

NIH initiative project to provide full-length open reading frame (FL-ORF) clones for human, mouse, and rat genes, cow. MGC cDNA clones were obtained by screening of cDNA libraries, by transcript-specific RT-PCR cloning, and by DNA synthesis of cDNA inserts. All MGC sequences are deposited in GenBank and clones can be purchased from distributors of IMAGE consortium. With conclusion of MGC project in March 2009, GenBank records of MGC sequences will be frozen, without further updates. Since definition of what constitutes full-length coding region for some of genes and transcripts for which they have MGC clones will likely change in future, users planning to order MGC clones will need to monitor for these changes. Users can make use of genome browsers and gene-specific databases, such as the UCSC Genome browser, NCBI's Map Viewer, and Entrez Gene, to view relevant regions of genome (browsers) or gene-related information (Entrez Gene).

Proper citation: Mammalian Gene Collection (RRID:SCR_007024) Copy   

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http://www.biorep.it/en

Offer biorepository services to public and private research institutes, to the highest standards of quality and safety with the aim of contributing to the advancement of medical research and scientific discovery. The BioRep Cell Repository establishes, maintains and distributes cell line cultures as well as DNA derived from these cultures. The scientific and business affiliation between BioRep and Coriell allows access to more than a million types of cell vials, stored in liquid nitrogen. Cells that have been stored for nearly 50 years, are still viable and available for research purposes today. Thanks to an exclusive agreement with the Coriell Institute for Medical Research, the oldest and largest biorepository of the world, BioRep is specialized in cell lines preparation, in nucleic acid extraction and long term storage in liquid nitrose (-196 degrees C) and in refrigerators (-80 degrees C) of any kind of biosamples, using procedures and standards developed by the Coriell in over 50 years of activity. BioRep and Coriell together constitute one of the few Global Biorepository able to serve the pharmaceutical industries for world wide clinical trials. BioRep facility is specifically designed to give the utmost efficiency and security by implementing Coriell procedures and standards. The BioRep Tissue Repository provides safe and secure storage of tissue specimens as required for medical research and scientific investigation. All tissues are preserved with the most current preservation techniques and processes. In addition to the storage service, BioRep provides Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Microbiology services developed in ISO 9001:2008 certified laboratories.

Proper citation: BioRep (RRID:SCR_004907) Copy   

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http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/blast2/index.html

It is used to compare a novel sequence with those contained in nucleotide and protein databases by aligning the novel sequence with previously characterized genes.

Proper citation: Washington University Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (RRID:SCR_008285) Copy   

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http://www.uwstructuralgenomics.org/

It is a specialized research center supported by the Protein Structure Initiative (PSI) of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). PSI is a federal, university, and industry effort aimed at dramatically reducing the costs and lessening the time it takes to determine a three-dimensional protein structure. The long-range goal of PSI is to solve 10,000 protein structures in 10 years and to make the three-dimensional atomic-level structures of most proteins easily obtainable from knowledge of their corresponding DNA sequences. CESG is located within the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, WI) and the Department of Biochemistry at the Medical College of Wisconsin (Milwaukee, WI). CESG develops new methods and technologies to address unique eukaryotic bottlenecks and disseminates its methodologies and experimental results to the scientific community worldwide through: :- Cell-Free Protein Production Workshops :- Plasmids at PSI Materials Repository :- Posters Presented at Scientific Meetings :- Publications in PubMed / PubMed Central :- Sesame (LIMS) Available for Researchers :- Solved Structures in the Protein Data Bank :- Technology Dissemination Reports They have welcomed requests by researchers to solve eukaryotic protein structures, particularly medically relevant proteins, through our Online Structure Request System for Researchers. They have solved many community-nominated targets and deposited information about these targets in public databases and published on our investigations and findings. Sponsors: CESG is supported by NIH / NIGMS Protein Structure Initiative grant numbers U54 GM074901 and P50 GM064598.

Proper citation: CESG (RRID:SCR_008451) Copy   

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http://www.ifti.org/ootfd/

ooTFD (object-oriented Transcription Factors Database) is a successor to TFD, the original Transcription Factors Database. This database is aimed at capturing information regarding the polypeptide interactions which comprise and define the properties of transcription factors. ooTFD contains information about transcription factor binding sites, as well as composite relationships within transcription factors, which frequently occur as multisubunit proteins that form a complex interface to cellular processes outside the transcription machinery through protein-protein interactions. ooTFD contains information represented in TFD but also allows the representation of containment, composite, and interaction relationships between transcription factor polypeptides. It is designed to represent information about all transcription factors, both eukaryotic and prokaryotic, basal as well as regulatory factors, and multiprotein complexes as well as monomers.

Proper citation: object-oriented Transcription Factors Database (RRID:SCR_002435) Copy   

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http://genome.imim.es/datasets/abs2005/index.html

Public database of known binding sites identified in promoters of orthologous vertebrate genes that have been manually curated from bibliography. We have annotated 650 experimental binding sites from 68 transcription factors and 100 orthologous target genes in human, mouse, rat or chicken genome sequences. Computational predictions and promoter alignment information are also provided for each entry. For each gene, TFBSs conserved in orthologous sequences from at least two different species must be available. Promoter sequences as well as the original GenBank or RefSeq entries are additionally supplied in case of future identification conflicts. The final TSS annotation has been refined using the database dbTSS. Up to this release, 500 bps upstream the annotated transcription start site (TSS) according to REFSEQ annotations have been always extracted to form the collection of promoter sequences from human, mouse, rat and chicken. For each regulatory site, the position, the motif and the sequence in which the site is present are available in a simple format. Cross-references to EntrezGene, PubMed and RefSeq are also provided for each annotation. Apart from the experimental promoter annotations, predictions by popular collections of weight matrices are also provided for each promoter sequence. In addition, global and local alignments and graphical dotplots are also available.

Proper citation: ABS: A Database of Annotated Regulatory Binding Sites From Orthologous Promoters (RRID:SCR_002276) Copy   

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http://www.drugbank.ca/

Bioinformatics and cheminformatics database that combines detailed drug (i.e. chemical, pharmacological and pharmaceutical) data with comprehensive drug target (i.e. sequence, structure, and pathway) information.

Proper citation: DrugBank (RRID:SCR_002700) Copy   

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http://romi.bu.edu/elisa/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented August 23, 2016. ELISA is an online database that combines functional annotation with structure and sequence homology modeling to place proteins into sequence-structure-function neighborhoods. The atomic unit of the database is a set of sequences and structural templates that those sequences encode. A graph that is built from the structural comparison of these templates is called PDUG (protein domain universe graph). It introduces a method of functional inference through a probabilistic calculation done on an arbitrary set of PDUG nodes. Further, all PDUG structures are mapped onto all fully sequenced proteomes allowing an easy interface for evolutionary analysis and research into comparative proteomics. ELISA is the first database with applicability to evolutionary structural genomics explicitly in mind.

Proper citation: Evolutionary Lineage Inferred from Structural Analysis (RRID:SCR_002343) Copy   

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http://www.allgenes.org/

DoTS (Database Of Transcribed Sequences) is a human and mouse transcript index created from all publicly available transcript sequences. The input sequences are clustered and assembled to form the DoTS Consensus Transcripts that comprise the index. These transcripts are assigned stable identifiers of the form DT.123456 (and are often referred to as dots). The transcripts are in turn clustered to form putative DoTS Genes. These are assigned stable identifiers of the form DG.1234356. As of September 1, 2004, the DoTS annotation team has manually annotated 43,164 human and 78,054 mouse DoTS Transcripts (DTs), corresponding to 3,939 human and 7,752 mouse DoTS Genes (DGs). Use the manually annotated gene query to see the DoTS Transcripts that have been manually annotated. The focus of the DoTS project is integrating the various types of data (e.g., EST sequences, genomic sequence, expression data, functional annotation) in a structured manner which facilitates sophisticated queries that are otherwise not easy to perform. DoTS is built on the GUS Platform which includes a relational database that uses controlled vocabularies and ontologies to ensure that biologically meaningful queries can be posed in a uniform fashion. An easy way to start using the site is to search for DoTS Transcripts using an existing cDNA or mRNA sequence. Click on the BLAST tab at the top of the page and enter your sequence in the form provided. All the transcripts with significant sequence similarity to your query sequence will be displayed. Or use one of the provided queries to retrieve transcripts using a number of criteria. These queries are listed on the query page, which can also be reached by clicking on the tab marked query at the top of the page. Finally, the boolean query page allows these queries to be combined in a variety of ways. Sponsors: Funding provided by -NIH grant RO1-HG-01539-03 -DOE grant DE-FG02-00ER62893

Proper citation: Database of Transcribed Sequences (RRID:SCR_002334) Copy   

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http://machibase.gi.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/

Database for Drosophila melanogaster transcription profiling that allows users to search the Drosophilia genome, see sequence overviews, and look at various transcripts. The data were generated in conjunction with the recently developed high-throughput genome sequencer Illumina / Solexa using a newly developed 5'-end mRNA collection method. Approximately 25 million 25-27 nucleotide (nt) 5'-end mRNA tags from the embryos, larvae, young males, young females, old males, old females, and S2 (culture cell line) of D. melanogaster were collected. By arranging this vast amount of expression tag with other annotated data, they have built a one-stop service for Drosophila melanogaster transcription profiling.

Proper citation: MachiBase (RRID:SCR_003078) Copy   

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