title: ApiDB: integrated resources for the apicomplexan bioinformatics resource center.
abstract: ApiDB (http://ApiDB.org) represents a unified entry point for the NIH-funded Apicomplexan Bioinformatics Resource Center (BRC) that integrates numerous database resources and multiple data types. The phylum Apicomplexa comprises numerous veterinary and medically important parasitic protozoa including human pathogenic species of the genera Cryptosporidium, Plasmodium and Toxoplasma. ApiDB serves not only as a database in its own right, but as a single web-based point of entry that unifies access to three major existing individual organism databases (PlasmoDB.org, ToxoDB.org and CryptoDB.org), and integrates these databases with data available from additional sources. Through the ApiDB site, users may pose queries and search all available apicomplexan data and tools, or they may visit individual component organism databases.
authors.affiliation: Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, Athens, GA, USA.
authors.forename: Cristina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Aurrecoechea
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Heiges
authors.forename: Haiming
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Zhiming
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Steve
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fischer
authors.forename: Philippa
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rhodes
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: Eileen
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kraemer
authors.forename: Christian J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Stoeckert
authors.forename: David S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Roos
authors.forename: Jessica C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Kissinger
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016782:Apicomplexa / Q000235:genetics*; D019295:Computational Biology; D003458:Cryptosporidium / Q000235:genetics; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D018503:Genome, Protozoan; D020407:Internet; D010961:Plasmodium / Q000235:genetics; D018511:Systems Integration; D014122:Toxoplasma / Q000235:genetics; D014584:User-Computer Interface