PhytoPath
PhytoPath is a joint scientific project between the European Bioinformatics Institute and Rothamsted Research, which was launched in February 2012. PhytoPath aims to enable the exploitation of the growing body of “-omics” data being generated for phytopathogens, their plant hosts and related model species for the development of improved strategies for the protection of crops against plant diseases.
Background
PhytoPath is a bioinformatics resource launched in 2012, which integrates genome scale data from important plant pathogenic species with literature-curated information about the phenotypes of host infection available from the Pathogen-Host Interaction database (PHI-base). It provides access to complete genome assembly and gene models from priority crop and model phytopathogenic species of fungi and oomycetes through the Ensembl Genomes Browser interface. Phytopath also links directly from individual gene sequence models within the Ensembl genome browser to the peer reviewed phenotype information curated within PHI-base. So far nine fungal and four oomycete pathogen genomes are available within Phytopath, with more genomes planned to be released in 2012. The Phytopath resource aims to provide tools for comparative analysis of fungal and oomycete genomes.
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References
Flicek et al. 2011. Ensembl 2011. Nucleic Acids Res>Nucleic Acids Res.(Database issue):D800-6. Epub 2010 Nov 2.
Winnenburg, R., Urban, M., Beacham, A., Baldwin, T.K., Holland, S., Lindeberg, M., Hansen, H., Rawlings, C., Hammond-Kosack, K. and Köhler, J. 2008. PHI-base update: additions to the pathogen host interactions database. Nucleic Acids Research 36 (Database Issue): D572-6
Baldwin, T.K., Winnenburg, R., Urban, M., Rawlings, C., Köhler, J. and Hammond-Kosack, K.E. 2006. The Pathogen-Host Interactions database (PHI-base) provides insights into generic and novel themes of pathogenicity. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 19(12):1451-62