HGT-DB -- A database of putative horizontally transferred genes in prokaryotic complete genomes
What you can do:
Search prokaryotic genomes for putative horizontally transferred genes.
Highlights:
- It is a genomic database that includes statistical parameters such as G+C content, codon and amino-acid usage, as well as information about which genes deviate in these parameters for prokaryotic complete genomes.
- The current version of the database contains 88 bacterial and archaeal complete genomes, including multiple chromosomes and strains.
- For each genome, the database provides statistical parameters for all the genes, as well as averages and standard deviations of G+C content, codon usage, relative synonymous codon usage and amino-acid content.
- It also provides information about correspondence analyses of the codon usage, plus lists of extraneous group of genes in terms of G+C content and lists of putatively acquired genes.
- With this information, researchers can explore the G+C content and codon usage of a gene when they find incongruities in sequence-based phylogenetic trees.
Keywords:
- horizontally transferred genes
- HGT
- horizontal gene transfer
- lateral gene transfer
- prokaryotic genomes
- microbial genomes
- bacterial genomes
- archaeal genomes
- G+C content
- GC content
- condon usage
- amino-acid content
- microbial phylogeny
- microbial phylogenetic trees
- cyanobacterial genomes
- Bacillus genomes
- Clostridium genomes
- Mollicutes genomes
- Proteobacterial genomes
Literature & Tutorials:
PubMed Link: HGT-DB
This record last updated: 05-05-2005