Announcing New Curated Cyanobacterial Databases in BioCycThe BioCyc.org microbial genome web portal contains three new, highly curated cyanobacterial Pathway/Genome Databases, in addition to one previously existing cyanobacterial database in BioCyc (for Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942). Each database integrates a variety of information including the genome, metabolic pathways, operons, protein features, Gene Ontology terms, and orthologs. Each of these databases received extensive literature-based curation to correct annotation errors and to integrate information about experimentally determined pathways and gene functions.
Curated cyanobacaterial databases:
In addition, the newly curated gene functions for each of the preceding organisms were propagated via ortholog relationships among those four databases, and to the following databases. For example, gene csoS1A was newly curated as a hexameric carboxysome shell protein CsoS1A in Prochlorococcus marinus marinus CCMP1375, but orthologs of that gene are present in several of the other genomes, therefore we propagated the gene and protein names from CCMP1375 to all of the other databases in which an ortholog was present.
BioCyc now contains a total of 200+ cyanobacterial databases.
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