title: BACTIBASE second release: a database and tool platform for bacteriocin characterization.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  BACTIBASE is an integrated open-access database designed for the characterization of bacterial antimicrobial peptides, commonly known as bacteriocins.
  
  
  METHODS
  For its second release, BACTIBASE has been expanded and equipped with additional functions aimed at both casual and power users. The number of entries has been increased by 44% and includes data collected from published literature as well as high-throughput datasets. The database provides a manually curated annotation of bacteriocin sequences. Improvements brought to BACTIBASE include incorporation of various tools for bacteriocin analysis, such as homology search, multiple sequence alignments, Hidden Markov Models, molecular modelling and retrieval through our taxonomy Browser.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The provided features should make BACTIBASE a useful tool in food preservation or food safety applications and could have implications for the development of new drugs for medical use. BACTIBASE is available at http://bactibase.pfba-lab-tun.org.
authors.affiliation: STELA Dairy Research Center, Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods Institute, Université Laval, G1K 7P4 Québec, QC, Canada.
authors.forename: Riadh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hammami
authors.forename: Abdelmajid
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zouhir
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Le Lay
authors.forename: Jeannette
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ben Hamida
authors.forename: Ismail
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Fliss
mesh_terms: D001430:Bacteriocins / Q000032:analysis*; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D030562:Databases, Protein; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D001430:Bacteriocins