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ArticleDatabase : the journal of biological databases and curation2014

MetaProx: the database of metagenomic proximons.

Gregory Vey, Trevor C Charles

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Article in Database : the journal of biological databases and curation, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Gregory VeyDepartment of Biology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave. West, Waterloo ON, N2L 3G1, Canada gvey@uwaterloo.ca.
Trevor C CharlesDepartment of Biology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave. West, Waterloo ON, N2L 3G1, Canada.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

MetaProx is the database of metagenomic proximons: a searchable repository of proximon objects conceived with two specific goals. The first objective is to accelerate research involving metagenomic functional interactions by providing a database of metagenomic operon candidates. Proximons represent a special subset of directons (series of contiguous co-directional genes) where each member gene is in close proximity to its neighbours with respect to intergenic distance. As a result, proximons represent significant operon candidates where some subset of proximons is the set of true metagenomic operons. Proximons are well suited for the inference of metagenomic functional networks because predicted functional linkages do not rely on homology-dependent information that is frequently unavailable in metagenomic scenarios. The second objective is to explore representations for semistructured biological data that can offer an alternative to the traditional relational database approach. In particular, we use a serialized object implementation and advocate a Data as Data policy where the same serialized objects can be used at all levels (database, search tool and saved user file) without conversion or the use of human-readable markups. MetaProx currently includes 4,210,818 proximons consisting of 8 \,926,993 total member genes. Database URL: http://metaprox.uwaterloo.ca.

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Databases, GeneticAnimalsHumansInternetMetabolic Networks and PathwaysMetagenomeMetagenomicsMicrobiotaSoftwareUser-Computer Interface

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PMID25288655
PMCPMC4186327

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