HOMD -- the Human Oral Microbiome Database
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What you can do:
Search detailed biological entries on oral microorganisms and the genes they express.
Highlights:
- The goal of the HOMD is to provide the scientific community with comprehensive information oxadn the approximately 600 prokaryote species that are present in the human oral cavity.
- The majority of these species are uncultivated and unnamed, recognized primarily by their 16S rRNA sequences.
- The HOMD presents a provisional naming scheme for the currently unnamed species so that strain, clone, and probe data from any laboratory can be directly linked to a stably named reference entity.
- The HOMD links sequence data with phenotypic, phylogenetic, clinical, and bibliographic information.
- Full and partial oral bacterial genome sequences determined as part of this project and the Human Microbiome Project, are being added to the HOMD as they become available.
- HOMD offers easy to used tools for viewing all publicly available oral bacterial genomes.
Keywords:
- microbe
- microbes
- oral
- dental
- craniofacial
- microbiome
- microorganism
- oral bacterial genome
- mouth
- periodontal disease
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This record last updated: 04-09-2008