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. 2007 Jan;35(Database issue):D427-30.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkl880. Epub 2006 Nov 10.

ApiDB: integrated resources for the apicomplexan bioinformatics resource center

Cristina Aurrecoechea  1 , Mark Heiges, Haiming Wang, Zhiming Wang, Steve Fischer, Philippa Rhodes, John Miller, Eileen Kraemer, Christian J Stoeckert Jr, David S Roos, Jessica C Kissinger
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ApiDB: integrated resources for the apicomplexan bioinformatics resource center

Cristina Aurrecoechea et al. Nucleic Acids Res. 2007 Jan.

Abstract

ApiDB (http://ApiDB.org) represents a unified entry point for the NIH-funded Apicomplexan Bioinformatics Resource Center (BRC) that integrates numerous database resources and multiple data types. The phylum Apicomplexa comprises numerous veterinary and medically important parasitic protozoa including human pathogenic species of the genera Cryptosporidium, Plasmodium and Toxoplasma. ApiDB serves not only as a database in its own right, but as a single web-based point of entry that unifies access to three major existing individual organism databases (PlasmoDB.org, ToxoDB.org and CryptoDB.org), and integrates these databases with data available from additional sources. Through the ApiDB site, users may pose queries and search all available apicomplexan data and tools, or they may visit individual component organism databases.

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Database Functionality (A) Searches are initiated via tools or queries provided on the web site's front page. (B) Query forms allow user-defined refinement for the queries, e.g. which species would you like to search? Descriptions and help are provided for the queries. (C) Query searches return a table with results from the component databases sites. The result summary states the number of records found at each site (circled). Individual results are linked to a detailed record page at its component database site. (D) The BLAST tool integrates searches of all publicly available apicomplexan genomic data, including species not hosted by a component database. (E) Query results can be downloaded in a customized tab-delimited file.
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