Nucleic Acids Research Advance Access originally published online on October 21, 2008
Nucleic Acids Research 2009 37(Database issue):D408-D411; doi:10.1093/nar/gkn749
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Nucleic Acids Research, 2009, Vol. 37, Database issue D408-D411
© 2008 The Author(s)
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PEDANT covers all complete RefSeq genomes
1Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Ingolstädter Landstrasse 1, 85764 Neuherberg, 2Department of Genome-oriented Bioinformatics, Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, Am Forum 1, 85350 Freising and 3Biomax Informatics AG, Lochhamer Strasse 9, 82152 Martinsried, Germany
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Received September 15, 2008. Accepted October 3, 2008.
The PEDANT genome database provides exhaustive annotation of nearly 3000 publicly available eukaryotic, eubacterial, archaeal and viral genomes with more than 4.5 million proteins by a broad set of bioinformatics algorithms. In particular, all completely sequenced genomes from the NCBI's Reference Sequence collection (RefSeq) are covered. The PEDANT processing pipeline has been sped up by an order of magnitude through the utilization of precalculated similarity information stored in the similarity matrix of proteins (SIMAP) database, making it possible to process newly sequenced genomes immediately as they become available. PEDANT is freely accessible to academic users at http://pedant.gsf.de. For programmatic access Web Services are available at http://pedant.gsf.de/webservices.jsp.