title: Fourmidable: a database for ant genomics.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Fourmidable is an infrastructure to curate and share the emerging genetic, molecular, and functional genomic data and protocols for ants.
  
  
  METHODS
  The Fourmidable assembly pipeline groups nucleotide sequences into clusters before independently assembling each cluster. Subsequently, assembled sequences are annotated via Interproscan and BLAST against general and insect-specific databases. Gene-specific information can be retrieved using gene identifiers, searching for similar sequences or browsing through inferred Gene Ontology annotations. The database will readily scale as ultra-high throughput sequence data and sequences from additional species become available.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Fourmidable currently houses EST data from two ant species and microarray gene expression data for one of these. Fourmidable is publicly available at http://fourmidable.unil.ch.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology and Evolution, Biophore, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. yannick.wurm@unil.ch
authors.forename: Yannick
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wurm
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Uva
authors.forename: Frédéric
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ricci
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Stephanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jemielity
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Iseli
authors.forename: Laurent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Falquet
authors.forename: Laurent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Keller
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001000:Ants / Q000235:genetics*; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D020224:Expressed Sequence Tags; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods*; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis