The Comprehensive Microbial Resource

• Published in: Nucleic acids research Vol. 29; no. 1; pp. 123 - 125
• Main Authors: Peterson, J D, Umayam, L A, Dickinson, T, Hickey, E K, White, O
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Oxford Publishing Limited (England) 01.01.2001; Oxford University Press
• Subjects: Bacteria - genetics; Comprehensive Microbial Resource; Databases, Factual; Genes, Bacterial - genetics; Genome, Bacterial; Information Services; Internet
• ISSN: 1362-4962; 0305-1048; 1362-4962
• DOI: 10.1093/nar/29.1.123

One challenge presented by large-scale genome sequencing efforts is effective display of uniform information to the scientific community. The Comprehensive Microbial Resource (CMR) contains robust annotation of all complete microbial genomes and allows for a wide variety of data retrievals. The bacterial information has been placed on the Web at http://www.tigr.org/CMR for retrieval using standard web browsing technology. Retrievals can be based on protein properties such as molecular weight or hydrophobicity, GC-content, functional role assignments and taxonomy. The CMR also has special web-based tools to allow data mining using pre-run homology searches, whole genome dot-plots, batch downloading and traversal across genomes using a variety of datatypes.