title: MicrobeDB: a locally maintainable database of microbial genomic sequences.
abstract: Analysis of microbial genomes often requires the general organization and comparison of tens to thousands of genomes both from public repositories and unpublished sources. MicrobeDB provides a foundation for such projects by the automation of downloading published, completed bacterial and archaeal genomes from key sources, parsing annotations of all genomes (both public and private) into a local database, and allowing interaction with the database through an easy to use programming interface. MicrobeDB creates a simple to use, easy to maintain, centralized local resource for various large-scale comparative genomic analyses and a back-end for future microbial application design.
  
  
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  MicrobeDB is freely available under the GNU-GPL at: http://github.com/mlangill/microbedb/
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. morgan.g.i.langille@gmail.com
authors.forename: Morgan G I
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Langille
authors.forename: Matthew R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Laird
authors.forename: William W L
authors.initials: WW
authors.lastname: Hsiao
authors.forename: Terry A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Chiu
authors.forename: Jonathan A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Eisen
authors.forename: Fiona S L
authors.initials: FS
authors.lastname: Brinkman
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D020745:Genome, Archaeal; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D023281:Genomics; D020407:Internet; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface