title: The Comprehensive Phytopathogen Genomics Resource: a web-based resource for data-mining plant pathogen genomes.
abstract: The Comprehensive Phytopathogen Genomics Resource (CPGR) provides a web-based portal for plant pathologists and diagnosticians to view the genome and trancriptome sequence status of 806 bacterial, fungal, oomycete, nematode, viral and viroid plant pathogens. Tools are available to search and analyze annotated genome sequences of 74 bacterial, fungal and oomycete pathogens. Oomycete and fungal genomes are obtained directly from GenBank, whereas bacterial genome sequences are downloaded from the A Systematic Annotation Package (ASAP) database that provides curation of genomes using comparative approaches. Curated lists of bacterial genes relevant to pathogenicity and avirulence are also provided. The Plant Pathogen Transcript Assemblies Database provides annotated assemblies of the transcribed regions of 82 eukaryotic genomes from publicly available single pass Expressed Sequence Tags. Data-mining tools are provided along with tools to create candidate diagnostic markers, an emerging use for genomic sequence data in plant pathology. The Plant Pathogen Ribosomal DNA (rDNA) database is a resource for pathogens that lack genome or transcriptome data sets and contains 131 755 rDNA sequences from GenBank for 17 613 species identified as plant pathogens and related genera. Database URL: http://cpgr.plantbiology.msu.edu.
authors: Department of Plant Biology, 178 Wilson Lane, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
authors: John P
authors: JP
authors: Hamilton
authors: Eric C
authors: EC
authors: Neeno-Eckwall
authors: Bishwo N
authors: BN
authors: Adhikari
authors: Nicole T
authors: NT
authors: Perna
authors: Ned
authors: N
authors: Tisserat
authors: Jan E
authors: JE
authors: Leach
authors: C André
authors: CA
authors: Lévesque
authors: C Robin
authors: CR
authors: Buell
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods; D057225:Data Mining / Q000379:methods*; D003628:Database Management Systems; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D016680:Genome, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics*; D016681:Genome, Fungal / Q000235:genetics*; D020407:Internet; D010935:Plant Diseases / Q000235:genetics / Q000382:microbiology*; D014584:User-Computer Interface