e-Fungi

As part of the e-Fungi project a data warehouse is being developed that integrates data from multiple fungal genomes in a way that facilitates the systematic comparative study of those genomes. Less well understood species can be studied with reference to model organisms with more fully explored functional characteristics.

To support comparative functional genomics a library of bioinformatics queries is provided. These analyses that use of the warehouse, and can be combined in different ways to conduct studies of pathogenicity and evolution.

The current release provides integrated access to genomic data of 23 fungal genomes and 2 oomycetes. The analysis library for comparative genomics provided consists of a number of queries that can be parameterised by the user. The queries are organised in different groups according to their scope and the data analysed. The groups of queries include EST analysis, Mcl Cluster analysis, Essential yeast genes cluster analysis, and Transcript abundance.

A list of the genomes in the database can be found under Database. More information about accessing the database and using the analysis library can be found in the documentation.

The next database release is planned for 1st November. It is themed "Function" and will introduced functional annotation of genomes, pathway data, and Pfam family annotation into the warehouse, but also additional genomes. Additional queries will be provided and will mainly be focused on analysing the additional data.