CAMERA: A Community Resource for Metagenomics

By Rekha Seshadri, S. Kravitz, L. Smarr, P. Gilna, M. Frazier. PLoS Biology, 2007

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The CAMERA (Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis) community database for metagenomic data deposition is an important first step in developing methods for monitoring microbial communities.

Subfields: Ecology, Molecular Biology

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Chapter 12: Human Microbiome Analysis (2012, methodology): “When successful, this has the obvious benefit of establishing synteny, structural variation, and opening up the range of tools developed for whole-genome analysis [63], and guided assemblies using read mapping (rather than de novo assembly) can be used when appropriate reference genomes are availabl”
Integrative analysis of environmental sequences using MEGAN4. (2011, methodology): “2006), and CAMERA (Seshadri et al. 2007).”
A Bioinformatician's Guide to Metagenomics (2008, background): “Databases housing metagenomic data already include various degrees of metadata (91, 123), but cross-referencing such data is problematic due to a lack of consistency and standards.”
WebMGA: a customizable web server for fast metagenomic sequence analysis (2011, background): “Currently, MGRAST [28] and CAMERA [29] are the major sites where users can submit datasets for analysis.”
Next generation sequencing and bioinformatic bottlenecks: the current state of metagenomic data analysis. (2012, background): “org/ RATT [41] VMGAP [31] CAMERA [42] METAREP [43]”
VIROME: a standard operating procedure for analysis of viral metagenome sequences (2012, background): “With the exception of some of the viral libraries, all MGOL peptides are contained in the CAMERA database [26].”
CRISPRTarget (2013, methodology): “Selected parts of the CAMERA databases, enriched in phage sequences, are provided, 72 and the user can upload custom data e.g., new genomic or metagenomic data for searching.”
Community cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis: the CAMERA resource (2010, background): “The aim of CAMERA is to develop and maintain a rich, distinctive data repository with associated bioinformatics tools, and a collaborative on-line environment; thus, CAMERA is a cyberinfrastructure resource that allows the community to address many of the unique challenges in metagenomics (4) as wel”
NBC: the Naïve Bayes Classification tool webserver for taxonomic classification of metagenomic reads (2010, methodology): “Results: We introduce a webserver that implements the naïve Bayes classifier (NBC) to classify all metagenomic reads to their best taxonomic match.”