Pathema: A clade-specific bioinformatics resource center for pathogen research

Lauren M. Brinkac, Tanja Davidsen, Erin Beck, Anuradha Ganapathy, Elisabet Caler, Robert J. Dodson, A. Scott Durkin, Derek M. Harkins, Hernan Lorenzi, Ramana Madupu, Yinong Sebastian, Susmita Shrivastava, Mathangi Thiagarajan, Joshua Orvis, Jaideep P. Sundaram, Jonathon Crabtree, Kevin Galens, Yongmei Zhao, Jason M. Inman, Robert MontgomerySeth Schobel, Kevin Galinsky, David M. Tanenbaum, Adam Resnick, Nikhat Zafar, Owen White, Granger Sutton*

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Abstract

Pathema (http://pathema.jcvi.org) is one of the eight Bioinformatics Resource Centers (BRCs) funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) designed to serve as a core resource for the bio-defense and infectious disease research community. Pathema strives to support basic research and accelerate scientific progress for understanding, detecting, diagnosing and treating an established set of six target NIAID Category A-C pathogens: Category A priority pathogens; Bacillus anthracis and Clostridium botulinum, and Category B priority pathogens; Burkholderia mallei, Burkholderia pseudomallei, Clostridium perfringens and Entamoeba histolytica. Each target pathogen is represented in one of four distinct clade-specific Pathema web resources and underlying databases developed to target the specific data and analysis needs of each scientific community. All publicly available complete genome projects of phylogenetically related organisms are also represented, providing a comprehensive collection of organisms for comparative analyses. Pathema facilitates the scientific exploration of genomic and related data through its integration with web-based analysis tools, customized to obtain, display, and compute results relevant to ongoing pathogen research. Pathema serves the bio-defense and infectious disease research community by disseminating data resulting from pathogen genome sequencing projects and providing access to the results of inter-genomic comparisons for these organisms.

Original languageEnglish
Article numbergkp850
Pages (from-to)D408-D414
JournalNucleic Acids Research
Volume38
Issue numberSUPPL.1
DOIs
StatePublished - 20 Oct 2009
Externally publishedYes

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