MycoCosm Portal: Gearing Up for 1000 Fungal Genomes

Overview

Journal Nucleic Acids Res

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 2013 Dec 4

PMID 24297253

Citations 632

Authors

Igor V Grigoriev

Roman Nikitin

Sajeet Haridas

Alan Kuo

Robin Ohm

Robert Otillar

Robert Riley

Asaf Salamov

Xueling Zhao

Frank Korzeniewski

Tatyana Smirnova

Henrik Nordberg

Inna Dubchak

Igor Shabalov

Affiliations

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Abstract

MycoCosm is a fungal genomics portal (http://jgi.doe.gov/fungi), developed by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute to support integration, analysis and dissemination of fungal genome sequences and other 'omics' data by providing interactive web-based tools. MycoCosm also promotes and facilitates user community participation through the nomination of new species of fungi for sequencing, and the annotation and analysis of resulting data. By efficiently filling gaps in the Fungal Tree of Life, MycoCosm will help address important problems associated with energy and the environment, taking advantage of growing fungal genomics resources.

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