title: IMG 4 version of the integrated microbial genomes comparative analysis system.
abstract: The Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) data warehouse integrates genomes from all three domains of life, as well as plasmids, viruses and genome fragments. IMG provides tools for analyzing and reviewing the structural and functional annotations of genomes in a comparative context. IMG's data content and analytical capabilities have increased continuously since its first version released in 2005. Since the last report published in the 2012 NAR Database Issue, IMG's annotation and data integration pipelines have evolved while new tools have been added for recording and analyzing single cell genomes, RNA Seq and biosynthetic cluster data. Different IMG datamarts provide support for the analysis of publicly available genomes (IMG/W: http://img.jgi.doe.gov/w), expert review of genome annotations (IMG/ER: http://img.jgi.doe.gov/er) and teaching and training in the area of microbial genome analysis (IMG/EDU: http://img.jgi.doe.gov/edu).
authors.affiliation: Biological Data Management and Technology Center, Computational Research Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, 94720 USA and Department of Energy, Microbial Genome and Metagenome Program, Joint Genome Institute, 2800 Mitchell Drive, Walnut Creek, 94598 USA.
authors.forename: Victor M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Markowitz
authors.forename: I-Min A
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Krishna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Palaniappan
authors.forename: Ken
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Chu
authors.forename: Ernest
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Szeto
authors.forename: Manoj
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pillay
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ratner
authors.forename: Jinghua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Tanja
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Woyke
authors.forename: Marcel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Huntemann
authors.forename: Iain
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.forename: Konstantinos
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Billis
authors.forename: Neha
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Varghese
authors.forename: Konstantinos
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mavromatis
authors.forename: Amrita
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pati
authors.forename: Natalia N
authors.initials: NN
authors.lastname: Ivanova
authors.forename: Nikos C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Kyrpides
mesh_terms: D053898:Biosynthetic Pathways / Q000235:genetics; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D020745:Genome, Archaeal; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D064349:Genome, Microbial; D016679:Genome, Viral; D023281:Genomics; D020407:Internet; D058977:Molecular Sequence Annotation; D010957:Plasmids / Q000235:genetics; D040901:Proteomics; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration