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Paulino Pérez-Rodríguez1, Diego Mauricio Riaño-Pachón, Luiz Gustavo Guedes Corrêa
1Department of Molecular Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, GoFORSYS, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str 24-25, Haus 20, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany.
Abstract:
The Plant Transcription Factor Database (PlnTFDB; http://plntfdb.bio.uni-potsdam.de/v3.0/) is an integrative database that provides putatively complete sets of transcription factors (TFs) and other transcriptional regulators (TRs) in plant species (sensu lato) whose genomes have been completely sequenced and annotated. The complete sets of 84 families of TFs and TRs from 19 species ranging from unicellular red and green algae to angiosperms are included in PlnTFDB, representing >1.6 billion years of evolution of gene regulatory networks. For each gene family, a basic description is provided that is complemented by literature references, and multiple sequence alignments of protein domains. TF or TR gene entries include information of expressed sequence tags, 3D protein structures of homologous proteins, domain architecture and cross-links to other computational resources online. Moreover, the different species in PlnTFDB are linked to each other by means of orthologous genes facilitating cross-species comparisons.
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