Resource Report

URL: http://vmd.vbi.vt.edu/

Proper Citation: VMD (RRID:SCR_004905)

Description: THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on July 15, 2013. Database covering a range of plant pathogenic oomycetes, fungi and bacteria primarily those under study at Virginia Bioinformatics Institute. The data comes from different sources and has genomes of 3 oomycetes pathogens: Phytophthora sojae, Phytophthora ramorum and Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis. The genome sequences (95 MB for P.sojae and 65 MB for P.ramorum) were annotated with approximately 19,000 and approximately 16,000 gene models, respectively. Two different statistical methods were used to validate these gene models, Fickett''''s and a log-likelihood method. Functional annotation of the gene models is based on results from BlastX and InterProScan screens. From the InterProScan results, putative functions to 17,694 genes in P.sojae and 14,700 genes in P.ramorum could be assigned. An easy-to-use genome browser was created to view the genome sequence data, which opens to detailed annotation pages for each gene model. A community annotation interface is available for registered community members to add or edit annotations. There are approximately 1600 gene models for P.sojae and approximately 700 models for P.ramorum that have already been manually curated. A toolkit is provided as an additional resource for users to perform a variety of sequence analysis jobs.

Abbreviations: PAMGO_VMD, VMD

Synonyms: VBI Microbial Database, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute Microbial Database

Resource Type: database, data or information resource, data analysis service, analysis service resource, service resource, production service resource

Defining Citation: PMID:16381891

Keywords: microbial genome sequence, genome, genome sequence, genome model, gene, image, oomycete, fungus, bacteria, phytophthora sojae, phytophthora ramorum, hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis, plant