title: Comparative genomic analysis at the PATRIC, a bioinformatic resource center.
abstract: The Pathosystems Resource Integration Center (PATRIC) is a genomics-centric relational database and bioinformatics resource designed to assist scientists in infectious-disease research. This method paper provides detailed instructions on using this resource to finding data specific to genomes, saving it in a personalized workspace and using a variety of interactive tools to analyze that data. While PATRIC contains many diverse tools and functionalities to explore both genome-scale and gene expression data, the main focus of this chapter is on comparative analysis of bacterial genomes.
authors.affiliation: Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, 1015 Life Science Circle, Blacksburg, VA, 24061, USA, wattam@vbi.vt.edu.
authors.forename: Alice R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Wattam
authors.forename: Joseph L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Gabbard
authors.forename: Maulik
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shukla
authors.forename: Bruno W
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: Sobral
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D023281:Genomics