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ArticleNucleic acids research2021

COG database update: focus on microbial diversity, model organisms, and widespread pathogens.

Michael Y Galperin, Yuri I Wolf, Kira S Makarova, Roberto Vera Alvarez, David Landsman, Eugene V Koonin

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 546 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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546citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
41.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

546 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 963 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Michael Y GalperinNational Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA.
Yuri I WolfNational Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA.
Kira S MakarovaNational Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA.
Roberto Vera AlvarezNational Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA.
David LandsmanNational Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA.
Eugene V KooninNational Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA.
National Institutes of Health · US

Funding

NLM NIH HHS
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Clusters of Orthologous Genes (COG) database, also referred to as the Clusters of Orthologous Groups of proteins, was created in 1997 and went through several rounds of updates, most recently, in 2014. The current update, available at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/COG, substantially expands the scope of the database to include complete genomes of 1187 bacteria and 122 archaea, typically, with a single genome per genus. In addition, the current version of the COGs includes the following new features: (i) the recently deprecated NCBI's gene index (gi) numbers for the encoded proteins are replaced with stable RefSeq or GenBank\ENA\DDBJ coding sequence (CDS) accession numbers; (ii) COG annotations are updated for >200 newly characterized protein families with corresponding references and PDB links, where available; (iii) lists of COGs grouped by pathways and functional systems are added; (iv) 266 new COGs for proteins involved in CRISPR-Cas immunity, sporulation in Firmicutes and photosynthesis in cyanobacteria are included; and (v) the database is made available as a web page, in addition to FTP. The current release includes 4877 COGs. Future plans include further expansion of the COG collection by adding archaeal COGs (arCOGs), splitting the COGs containing multiple paralogs, and continued refinement of COG annotations.

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Databases, GeneticGenome, ArchaealGenome, BacterialArchaeaArchaeal ProteinsBacteriaBacterial ProteinsCRISPR-Cas SystemsGene OntologyHumansMolecular Sequence AnnotationSpores, BacterialArchaeal ProteinsBacterial Proteins

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PMID33167031
PMCPMC7778934
OpenAlexW3100584158

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