title: CyanoClust: comparative genome resources of cyanobacteria and plastids.
abstract: Cyanobacteria, which perform oxygen-evolving photosynthesis as do chloroplasts of plants and algae, are one of the best-studied prokaryotic phyla and one from which many representative genomes have been sequenced. Lack of a suitable comparative genomic database has been a problem in cyanobacterial genomics because many proteins involved in physiological functions such as photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation are not catalogued in commonly used databases, such as Clusters of Orthologous Proteins (COG). CyanoClust is a database of homolog groups in cyanobacteria and plastids that are produced by the program Gclust. We have developed a web-server system for the protein homology database featuring cyanobacteria and plastids. Database URL: http://cyanoclust.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/.
authors.affiliation: Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8902, Japan. naobumi@bio.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp
authors.forename: Naobumi V
authors.initials: NV
authors.lastname: Sasaki
authors.forename: Naoki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sato
mesh_terms: D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D000458:Cyanobacteria / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D030562:Databases, Protein; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D023281:Genomics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D020407:Internet; D010788:Photosynthesis / Q000235:genetics; D018087:Plastids / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D057386:Search Engine; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins