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PlantCAZyme: a database for plant carbohydrate-active enzymes
Alexander Ekstrom1, Rahil Taujale1, Nathan McGinn1
1Department of Computer Science and Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA.
Abstract:
PlantCAZyme is a database built upon dbCAN (database for automated carbohydrate active enzyme annotation), aiming to provide pre-computed sequence and annotation data of carbohydrate active enzymes (CAZymes) to plant carbohydrate and bioenergy research communities. The current version contains data of 43,790 CAZymes of 159 protein families from 35 plants (including angiosperms, gymnosperms, lycophyte and bryophyte mosses) and chlorophyte algae with fully sequenced genomes. Useful features of the database include: (i) a BLAST server and a HMMER server that allow users to search against our pre-computed sequence data for annotation purpose, (ii) a download page to allow batch downloading data of a specific CAZyme family or species and (iii) protein browse pages to provide an easy access to the most comprehensive sequence and annotation data.
Database Url:
http://cys.bios.niu.edu/plantcazyme/
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