title: The PEDANT genome database in 2005.
abstract: The PEDANT genome database (http://pedant.gsf.de) contains pre-computed bioinformatics analyses of publicly available genomes. Its main mission is to provide robust automatic annotation of the vast majority of amino acid sequences, which have not been subjected to in-depth manual curation by human experts in high-quality protein sequence databases. By design PEDANT annotation is genome-oriented, making it possible to explore genomic context of gene products, and evaluate functional and structural content of genomes using a category-based query mechanism. At present, the PEDANT database contains exhaustive annotation of over 1,240,000 proteins from 270 eubacterial, 23 archeal and 41 eukaryotic genomes.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Bioinformatics, GSF-National Research Center for Health and Environment, Ingolstädter Landstrasse 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany.
authors.forename: M Louise
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Riley
authors.forename: Thorsten
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wagner
authors.forename: Hans-Werner
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Mewes
authors.forename: Dmitrij
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Frishman
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology; D030541:Databases, Genetic / Q000639:trends; D023281:Genomics; D020539:Sequence Analysis, Protein; D012984:Software