title: PGAT: a multistrain analysis resource for microbial genomes.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The Prokaryotic-genome Analysis Tool (PGAT) is a web-based database application for comparing gene content and sequence across multiple microbial genomes facilitating the discovery of genetic differences that may explain observed phenotypes. PGAT supports database queries to identify genes that are present or absent in user-selected genomes, comparison of sequence polymorphisms in sets of orthologous genes, multigenome display of regions surrounding a query gene, comparison of the distribution of genes in metabolic pathways and manual community annotation.
  
  
  METHODS
  The PGAT website may be accessed at http://nwrce.org/pgat.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  mbrittna@uw.edu.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. mbrittna@uw.edu
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Brittnacher
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fong
authors.forename: H S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Hayden
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Jacobs
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Radey
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rohmer
mesh_terms: D057225:Data Mining; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D053858:Metabolic Networks and Pathways / Q000235:genetics; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D012984:Software