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EcoGene-RefSeq: EcoGene tools applied to the RefSeq prokaryotic genomes
Jindan Zhou1, Andrew J Richardson, Kenneth E Rudd
1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA. j.zhou1@miami.edu
Summary:
EcoGene.org is a genome database and website dedicated to Escherichia coli K-12 substrain MG1655 that is revised daily using information derived from the biomedical literature and in-house analysis. EcoGene is a major source of annotation updates for the MG1655 Genbank record, one of only a few Genbank genome records that are updated by a community effort. The Reference Sequence (RefSeq) database, built by The National Center for Biotechnology Information, comprises a set of duplicate Genbank genome records that can be modified by the NCBI staff annotators. EcoGene-RefSeq is being developed as a stand-alone internet resource to facilitate the usage of EcoGene-based tools on any of the >2400 completed prokaryotic genome records that are currently available at the RefSeq database.
Availability:
The web interface of EcoGene-RefSeq is available at http://www.ecogene.org/refseq.
Contact:
krudd@med.miami.edu or j.zhou1@miami.edu.
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