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ArticleNucleic acids research2018

dbCAN2: a meta server for automated carbohydrate-active enzyme annotation.

Han Zhang, Tanner Yohe, Le Huang, Sarah Entwistle, Peizhi Wu, Zhenglu Yang, Peter K Busk, Ying Xu, Yanbin Yin

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1,266 papers.

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9 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Han ZhangCollege of Computer and Control Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
Tanner YoheDepartment of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA.
Le HuangCollege of Computer and Control Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
Sarah EntwistleDepartment of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA.
Peizhi WuCollege of Computer and Control Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
Zhenglu YangCollege of Computer and Control Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
Peter K BuskDepartment of Science and Environment, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark.
Ying XuDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia. Athens, GA, USA.
Yanbin YinDepartment of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA.
Nankai University · CNNorthern Illinois University · USRoskilde University · DKUniversity of Georgia · US

Funding

Orphan genes in pathogenic bacteriaR15GM114706 · NIGMS · NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY · PI YIN, YANBIN · 2015 to 2015
$373k
NIGMS NIH HHS R15 GM114706
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Complex carbohydrates of plants are the main food sources of animals and microbes, and serve as promising renewable feedstock for biofuel and biomaterial production. Carbohydrate active enzymes (CAZymes) are the most important enzymes for complex carbohydrate metabolism. With an increasing number of plant and plant-associated microbial genomes and metagenomes being sequenced, there is an urgent need of automatic tools for genomic data mining of CAZymes. We developed the dbCAN web server in 2012 to provide a public service for automated CAZyme annotation for newly sequenced genomes. Here, dbCAN2 (http://cys.bios.niu.edu/dbCAN2) is presented as an updated meta server, which integrates three state-of-the-art tools for CAZome (all CAZymes of a genome) annotation: (i) HMMER search against the dbCAN HMM (hidden Markov model) database; (ii) DIAMOND search against the CAZy pre-annotated CAZyme sequence database and (iii) Hotpep search against the conserved CAZyme short peptide database. Combining the three outputs and removing CAZymes found by only one tool can significantly improve the CAZome annotation accuracy. In addition, dbCAN2 now also accepts nucleotide sequence submission, and offers the service to predict physically linked CAZyme gene clusters (CGCs), which will be a very useful online tool for identifying putative polysaccharide utilization loci (PULs) in microbial genomes or metagenomes.

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Databases, GeneticCarbohydrate MetabolismCarbohydratesData MiningGenome, BacterialGenome, FungalGenome, PlantGlycoside HydrolasesMetagenomeMolecular Sequence AnnotationPlantsCarbohydratesGlycoside Hydrolases

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