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Nucleic Acids Research Advance Access published online on October 25, 2009
Nucleic Acids Research, doi:10.1093/nar/gkp918
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© The Author(s) 2009. Published by Oxford University Press.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Megx.net: integrated database resource for marine ecological genomics

Renzo Kottmann1,*, Ivalyo Kostadinov1,2, Melissa Beth Duhaime1,2, Pier Luigi Buttigieg1,2, Pelin Yilmaz1,2, Wolfgang Hankeln1,2, Jost Waldmann1 and Frank Oliver Glöckner1,2

1Microbial Genomics Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, D-28359 Bremen and 2Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH, D-28759 Bremen, Germany

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +49 421 2028974; Fax: +49 421 2028580; Email: rkottman{at}mpi-bremen.de

Received September 15, 2009. Accepted October 8, 2009.

Megx.net is a database and portal that provides integrated access to georeferenced marker genes, environment data and marine genome and metagenome projects for microbial ecological genomics. All data are stored in the Microbial Ecological Genomics DataBase (MegDB), which is subdivided to hold both sequence and habitat data and global environmental data layers. The extended system provides access to several hundreds of genomes and metagenomes from prokaryotes and phages, as well as over a million small and large subunit ribosomal RNA sequences. With the refined Genes Mapserver, all data can be interactively visualized on a world map and statistics describing environmental parameters can be calculated. Sequence entries have been curated to comply with the proposed minimal standards for genomes and metagenomes (MIGS/MIMS) of the Genomic Standards Consortium. Access to data is facilitated by Web Services. The updated megx.net portal offers microbial ecologists greatly enhanced database content, and new features and tools for data analysis, all of which are freely accessible from our webpage http://www.megx.net.

The authors wish it to be known that, in their opinion, the first two authors should be regarded as joint First Authors.


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