title: CIDB: Chlamydia Interactive Database for cross-querying genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics data.
abstract: Chlamydiae are important pathogens of humans, birds and a wide range of animals. They are a unique group of bacteria, characterized by their developmental cycle. Chlamydia has been difficult to study because of their obligate intracellular growth habit and lack of a genetic transformation system. However, the past 5 years has seen the full genome sequencing of seven strains of Chlamydia and a rapid expansion of genomic, transcriptomic (RT-PCR, microarray) and proteomic analysis of these pathogens. The Chlamydia Interactive Database (CIDB) described here is the first database of its type that holds genomic, RT-PCR, microarray and proteomics data sets that can be cross-queried by researchers for patterns in the data. Combining the data of many research groups into a single database and cross-querying from different perspectives should enhance our understanding of the complex cell biology of these pathogens. The database is available at: http://www3.it.deakin.edu.au:8080/CIDB/.
authors.affiliation: School of Engineering and Information Technology, Deakin University, Australia.
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Timms
authors.forename: Yi-Ping Phoebe
authors.initials: YP
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D002689:Chlamydia / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D019295:Computational Biology; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods*; D007256:Information Systems; D040901:Proteomics / Q000379:methods*