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VFDB

VFDB also known as Virulence Factor Database is a database that provides scientist quick access to virulence factors in bacterial pathogens. It can be navigated and browsed using genus or words. A BLAST tool is provided for search against known virulence factors. VFDB contains a collection of 16 important bacterial pathogens. Perl scripts were used to extract positions and sequences of VF from GenBank. Clusters of Orthologous Groups (COG) was used to update incomplete annotations. More information was obtained by NCBI. VFDB was built on Windows operation systems on DELL PowerEdge 1600SC servers.

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Virulence Factor Database
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DescriptionA database that tracks bacterial virulence factors
Data types
captured		Pathogenic bacteria
OrganismsBacteria
Contact
Primary citationPMID 15608208
Access
Websitewww.mgc.ac.cn/VFs/main.htm
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VFDB also known as Virulence Factor Database is a database that provides scientist quick access to virulence factors in bacterial pathogens.1 It can be navigated and browsed using genus or words. A BLAST tool is provided for search against known virulence factors.2 VFDB contains a collection of 16 important bacterial pathogens.1 Perl scripts were used to extract positions and sequences of VF from GenBank.3 Clusters of Orthologous Groups (COG) was used to update incomplete annotations.1 More information was obtained by NCBI. VFDB was built on Windows operation systems on DELL PowerEdge 1600SC servers.

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References

  1. Chen, L. (2004-12-17). "VFDB: a reference database for bacterial virulence factors". Nucleic Acids Research. 33 (Database issue): D325–D328. doi:10.1093/nar/gki008. ISSN 1362-4962. PMC 539962. PMID 15608208.
  2. Altschul, S. (1997-09-01). "Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs". Nucleic Acids Research. 25 (17): 3389–3402. doi:10.1093/nar/25.17.3389. ISSN 1362-4962. PMC 146917. PMID 9254694.
  3. Benson, D. A.; Karsch-Mizrachi, I.; Lipman, D. J.; Ostell, J.; Sayers, E. W. (2009-01-01). "GenBank". Nucleic Acids Research. 37 (Database): D26–D31. doi:10.1093/nar/gkn723. ISSN 0305-1048. PMC 2686462. PMID 18940867.