title: Tetrahymena Genome Database (TGD): a new genomic resource for Tetrahymena thermophila research.
abstract: We have developed a web-based resource (available at www.ciliate.org) for researchers studying the model ciliate organism Tetrahymena thermophila. Employing the underlying database structure and programming of the Saccharomyces Genome Database, the Tetrahymena Genome Database (TGD) integrates the wealth of knowledge generated by the Tetrahymena research community about genome structure, genes and gene products with the newly sequenced macronuclear genome determined by The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR). TGD provides information curated from the literature about each published gene, including a standardized gene name, a link to the genomic locus in our graphical genome browser, gene product annotations utilizing the Gene Ontology, links to published literature about the gene and more. TGD also displays automatic annotations generated for the gene models predicted by TIGR. A variety of tools are available at TGD for searching the Tetrahymena genome, its literature and information about members of the research community.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5120, USA. nick@genome.stanford.edu
authors.forename: Nicholas A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Stover
authors.forename: Cynthia J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Krieger
authors.forename: Gail
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Binkley
authors.forename: Qing
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Dong
authors.forename: Dianna G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Fisk
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nash
authors.forename: Anand
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sethuraman
authors.forename: Shuai
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Weng
authors.forename: J Michael
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Cherry
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D018503:Genome, Protozoan; D023281:Genomics; D020407:Internet; D008957:Models, Genetic; D015800:Protozoan Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D012984:Software; D016808:Tetrahymena thermophila / Q000235:genetics*; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D015800:Protozoan Proteins