Abstract
The database, CryptoDB (http://CryptoDB.org), is a community bioinformatics resource for the AIDS-related apicomplexan-parasite, Cryptosporidium. CryptoDB integrates whole genome sequence and annotation with expressed sequence tag and genome survey sequence data and provides supplemental bioinformatics analyses and data-mining tools. A simple, yet comprehensive web interface is available for mining and visualizing the data. CryptoDB is allied with the databases PlasmoDB and ToxoDB via ApiDB, an NIH/NIAID-fundedBioinformatics Resource Center. Recent updates to CryptoDB include the deposition of annotated genome sequences for Cryptosporidium parvum and Cryptosporidium hominis, migration to a relational database (GUS), a new query and visualization interface and the introduction of Web services.
MeSH Terms
Animals
Computational Biology
Cryptosporidium/genetics
Cryptosporidium parvum/genetics
Databases, Genetic
Genome, Protozoan
Genomics
Internet
Protozoan Proteins/chemistry,genetics
Software
User-Computer Interface
Chemicals
Protozoan Proteins
Authors & Affiliations
13 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID
Heiges Mark
Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.
Wang Haiming
Robinson Edward
Aurrecoechea Cristina
Gao Xin
Kaluskar Nivedita
Rhodes Philippa
Wang Sammy
He Cong-Zhou
Su Yanqi
Miller John
Kraemer Eileen
Kissinger Jessica C
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