IMG Education
Gene Prediction
Recommended reading
- What is a Gene
- Genome annotation: from sequence to biology (Nature Reviews Genetics 2001)
- Annotation of bacterial and archaeal genomes (Chemical Reviews 2007)
- Genome re-annotation: a wiki solution? (Genome Biology 2007)
Pipelines
Gene Model Validation
Functional Annotations
Recommended reading
- Reconstructing the metabolic network of a bacterium from its genome (Trends in Microbiology 2005)
- Towards multidimensional genome annotation (Nature 2006)
- Automated bacterial genome analysis and annotation (Current Opinion in Microbiology 2006)
- IMG Terms and Pathways
Microbial Genome Lifecycle
Recommended reading
- GenBank (NAR 2007)
- RefSeq (NAR 2007)
- COG (NAR 2001)
- The Universal Protein Resource (NAR 2007)
- New developments in the InterPro database (NAR 2007)
- CDD: a conserved domain database for interactive domain family analysis (NAR 2007)
- The Pfam protein families database (NAR 2007)
- TIGRFAMs and Genome Properties (NAR 2007)
Biological Data Integration
Recommended reading
- On the Nature of Biological Data (chapter in Catalyzing Inquiry at the Interface of Computing and Biology, 2005)
- Integrating Biological Databases (Nature Reviews 2003)
- Technologies for Integrating Biological Data (Briefings in Bioinformatics 2002)
- Data Integration Challenges (Nature Reviews 2005)
Comparative Genome Analysis and Annotation
Case Study
Recommended reading