IMG/VR Database
From LMU BioDB 2017
Contents
General Information
Name: [IMG/VR]
Type of database: Integrated & Primary Database
Biological information: Domain (Microbiome, Bacteria, Archaea, Eukarya, Plasmids, GFragment, Viruses), Genome, Genome Composition, Habitat Type, DNA Nucleotide Composition, Ecosystem, Protein Coding Genes, Families, Chromosome Map
Type of data source: Both primary and secondary data from other curated databases (e.g. [Untiprot]).
Organization: [U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute] is a government (DOE) funded organization that provides publicly available information.
Funding sources: Primarily by the DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research
Scientific Quality of the Database
- Does it appear to completely cover its content domain?
Scientific Quality
Acknowledgements
References
- DOE Joint Genome Institute. (2017). DOE Joint Genome Institute: A DOE Office of Science User Facility of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. [online] Available at: https://jgi.doe.gov/ [Accessed 1 Oct. 2017].
- Img.jgi.doe.gov. (2017). JGI IMG Home. [online] Available at: https://img.jgi.doe.gov/cgi-bin/vr/main.cgi [Accessed 1 Oct. 2017].
- LMU BioDB 2017. (2017). Week 5. Retrieved October 01, 2017, from https://xmlpipedb.cs.lmu.edu/biodb/fall2017/index.php/Week_5
- Paez-Espino, D., Chen, I., Palaniappan, K., Ratner, A., Chu, K., Szeto, E., Pillay, M., Huang, J., Markowitz, V., Nielsen, T., Huntemann, M., K. Reddy, T., Pavlopoulos, G., Sullivan, M., Campbell, B., Chen, F., McMahon, K., Hallam, S., Denef, V., Cavicchioli, R., Caffrey, S., Streit, W., Webster, J., Handley, K., Salekdeh, G., Tsesmetzis, N., Setubal, J., Pope, P., Liu, W., Rivers, A., Ivanova, N. and Kyrpides, N. (2017). IMG/VR: a database of cultured and uncultured DNA Viruses and retroviruses.
