title: Databases for Microbiologists.
abstract: Databases play an increasingly important role in biology. They archive, store, maintain, and share information on genes, genomes, expression data, protein sequences and structures, metabolites and reactions, interactions, and pathways. All these data are critically important to microbiologists. Furthermore, microbiology has its own databases that deal with model microorganisms, microbial diversity, physiology, and pathogenesis. Thousands of biological databases are currently available, and it becomes increasingly difficult to keep up with their development. The purpose of this minireview is to provide a brief survey of current databases that are of interest to microbiologists.
authors.affiliation: Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, and Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA ijouline@utk.edu.
authors.forename: Igor B
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6708-5323
authors.initials: IB
authors.lastname: Zhulin
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D018407:Bacterial Physiological Phenomena; D016208:Databases, Factual; D015964:Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial