proGenomes: a resource for consistent functional and taxonomic annotations of prokaryotic genomes

By Daniel R. Mende, Ivica Letunic, Jaime Huerta-Cepas, Simone S. Li, Kristoffer Forslund, Shinichi Sunagawa, Peer Bork. 2016

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The availability of microbial genomes has opened many new avenues of research within microbiology. This has been driven primarily by comparative genomics approaches, which rely on accurate and consistent characterization of genomic sequences. It is nevertheless difficult to obtain consistent taxonomic and integrated functional annotations for defined prokaryotic clades. Thus, we developed proGenomes, a resource that provides user-friendly access to currently 25 038 high-quality genomes whose sequences and consistent annotations can be retrieved individually or by taxonomic clade. These genomes are assigned to 5306 consistent and accurate taxonomic species clusters based on previously established methodology. proGenomes also contains functional information for almost 80 million protein-coding genes, including a comprehensive set of general annotations and more focused annotations for carbohydrate-active enzymes and antibiotic resistance genes. Additionally, broad habitat information is provided for many genomes. All genomes and associated information can be downloaded by user-selected clade or multiple habitat-specific sets of representative genomes. We expect that the availability of high-quality genomes with comprehensive functional annotations will promote advances in clinical microbial genomics, functional evolution and other subfields of microbiology. proGenomes is available at http://progenomes.embl.de.

Subfields: Ecology, Food Science, Molecular Biology

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eggNOG 5.0: a hierarchical, functionally and phylogenetically annotated orthology resource based on 5090 organisms and 2502 viruses (2018, positive): “proGenomes for the classification of high quality prokaryotic genomes, (42)), we have been able to more than double core genome coverage for eggNOG, including extensive expansion of viral gene families, largely without loss of quality of orthology reconstruction or functional annotation.”
dbCAN2: a meta server for automated carbohydrate-active enzyme annotation (2018, background): “, MOCAT2 (17), DemaDb (18), proGenomes (19) and SACCHARIS (20).”