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BuchneraBASE: a post-genomic resource for Buchnera sp. APS.

M Dennis Prickett·Matt Page·Angela E Douglas·Gavin H Thomas
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SUMMARY: BuchneraBASE is a bioinformatic research tool for the genome of the symbiotic bacterium Buchnera sp. APS that includes an improved genome annotation, comparative information about related insect symbiont genomes and a complete mapping of metabolic reactions to an Escherichia coli in silico model. The database is designed to accommodate genome-wide post-genomic datasets that are becoming available for this organism. AVAILABILITY: BuchneraBASE is available at http://www.buchnera.org/.

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M Dennis Prickett, Matt Page, Angela E Douglas, Gavin H Thomas. 2006-01-05. BuchneraBASE: a post-genomic resource for Buchnera sp. APS.. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics%2Fbtk024

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