ISSN: 1449-2288International Journal of Biological Sciences
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Int J Biol Sci 2020; 16(5):838-848. doi:10.7150/ijbs.39289 This issue Cite
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Contents, Construction Methods, Data Resources, and Functions Comparative Analysis of Bacteria Databases
School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Abstract
Many bacterial-related databases are developed to meet the researchers' needs of analysis and search for a number of bacterial information. However, these databases have different data resources, construction methods, data formats, and analysis tools. It's difficult for researchers to select appropriate databases and analysis tools to promote their researches. In the paper, we compared the contents, construction methods, data sources, update frequency, scope and scale of data, analysis tools, and features of nine famous bacterial databases: CARD, EffectiveDB, MBGD, MPD, PATRCI, PHI-base, VFDB, gcMeta and SILVA, and help researchers to better make better use of these databases. In addition, we also hope this review can help researchers develop a more comprehensive database and better tools to meet the needs of researchers.
Keywords: bacterial database, analysis tool, data resource, database construction method
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