Nucleic Acids Research Advance Access originally published online on April 30, 2009
Nucleic Acids Research 2009 37(Web Server issue):W296-W299; doi:10.1093/nar/gkp268
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Nucleic Acids Research, 2009, Vol. 37, No. suppl_2 W296-W299
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The Microbe browser for comparative genomics
1Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), 2School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, 3Institute of Computational Science, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich and 4Vital-IT, Bâtiment Génopode, Université de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Received January 27, 2009. Revised April 3, 2009. Accepted April 11, 2009.
The Microbe browser is a web server providing comparative microbial genomics data. It offers comprehensive, integrated data from GenBank, RefSeq, UniProt, InterPro, Gene Ontology and the Orthologs Matrix Project (OMA) database, displayed along with gene predictions from five software packages. The Microbe browser is daily updated from the source databases and includes all completely sequenced bacterial and archaeal genomes. The data are displayed in an easy-to-use, interactive website based on Ensembl software. The Microbe browser is available at http://microbe.vital-it.ch/. Programmatic access is available through the OMA application programming interface (API) at http://microbe.vital-it.ch/api.