Open AccessIMG/M 4 version of the integrated metagenome comparative analysis system
Author(s) -
Victor Markowitz,
I-Min A. Chen,
Ken Chu,
Ernest Szeto,
Krishna Palaniappan,
Manoj Pillay,
Anna Ratner,
Jinghua Huang,
Ioanna Pagani,
Susannah G. Tringe,
Marcel Huntemann,
Konstantinos Billis,
Neha Varghese,
Kristin Tennessen,
Konstantinos Mavromatis,
Amrita Pati,
Natalia Ivanova,
Nikos C. Kyrpides
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
nucleic acids research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 9.008
H-Index - 537
eISSN - 1362-4954
pISSN - 0305-1048
DOI - 10.1093/nar/gkt919
Subject(s) - img , metagenomics , biology , context (archaeology) , genome , computational biology , database , genetics , gene , computer science , paleontology , operating system
IMG/M (http://img.jgi.doe.gov/m) provides support for comparative analysis of microbial community aggregate genomes (metagenomes) in the context of a comprehensive set of reference genomes from all three domains of life, as well as plasmids, viruses and genome fragments. IMG/M's data content and analytical tools have expanded continuously since its first version was released in 2007. Since the last report published in the 2012 NAR Database Issue, IMG/M's database architecture, annotation and data integration pipelines and analysis tools have been extended to copewith the rapid growth in the number and size of metagenome data sets handled by the system. IMG/M data marts provide support for the analysis of publicly available genomes, expert review of metagenome annotations (IMG/M ER: http://img.jgi.doe.gov/mer) and Human Microbiome Project (HMP)-specific metagenome samples (IMG/M HMP: http://img.jgi.doe.gov/imgm_hmp).