Biology:DictyBase

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Descriptiongenome portal for the Amoebozoa.
Contact
Research centreNorthwestern University
LaboratorydictyBase, Northwestern University Biomedical Informatics Center and Center for Genetic Medicine
Author(s)Pascale Gaudet
Primary citationGaudet & al. (2011)[1]
Release date2004
Access
Websitehttp://www.dictybase.org

dictyBase is an online bioinformatics database for the model organism Dictyostelium discoideum.[1][2]

Tools

dictyBase offers many ways of searching and retrieving data from the database:

  • dictyMart - a tool for retrieving varied information on many genes (or the sequences of those genes).
  • Genome Browser - browse the genes of D. discoideum in their genomic context.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gaudet, Pascale; Fey Petra; Basu Siddhartha; Bushmanova Yulia A; Dodson Robert; Sheppard Kerry A; Just Eric M; Kibbe Warren A et al. (Jan 2011). "dictyBase update 2011: web 2.0 functionality and the initial steps towards a genome portal for the Amoebozoa". Nucleic Acids Res. 39 (Database issue): D620–4. doi:10.1093/nar/gkq1103. PMID 21087999. 
  2. Petra Fey; Robert J. Dodson; Siddhartha Basu; Rex L. Chisholm (8 February 2013). "One Stop Shop for Everything Dictyostelium: DictyBase and the Dicty Stock Center in 2012". Dictyostelium discoideum Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology. 983. pp. 59–92. doi:10.1007/978-1-62703-302-2_4. ISBN 978-1-62703-301-5. 

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