ShiBASE: an integrated database for comparative genomics of Shigella

Open Access

1 January 2006

journal article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Nucleic Acids Research

Vol. 34 (90001) , D398-D401
https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkj033

Abstract

Among the major enteric bacterial pathogens, Shigella is found to display extreme genome diversity and dynamics, which imposes a challenge in comparative genomic studies. To facilitate further studies in this area, we have constructed an integrated online database, ShiBASE (http://www.mgc.ac.cn/ShiBASE/),which contains Shigella genomic sequences of four species and additional comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) data of 43 serotypes. ShiBASE offers online comparative analysis on DNA sequences, gene orders, metabolic pathways and virulence factors. In addition, ShiBASE has a newly developed online comparative visualization service, Shi-align, which enables the alignment of any query sequence with the reference genome sequences.

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