SmedGD: the Schmidtea mediterranea genome database

The planarian Schmidtea mediterranea is rapidly emerging as a model organism for the study of regeneration, tissue homeostasis and stem cell biology. The recent sequencing, assembly and annotation of its genome are expected to further buoy the biomedical importance of this organism. In order to make...

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Published in:Nucleic acids research 2008-01, Vol.36 (suppl-1), p.D599-D606
Main Authors: Robb, Sofia M.C, Ross, Eric, Alvarado, Alejandro Sánchez
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
Chromosome Mapping
Databases, Genetic
Expressed Sequence Tags
Genome, Helminth
Genomics
Helminth Proteins - chemistry
Helminth Proteins - genetics
Internet
Planarians - genetics
Planarians - metabolism
Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
User-Computer Interface
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Summary:The planarian Schmidtea mediterranea is rapidly emerging as a model organism for the study of regeneration, tissue homeostasis and stem cell biology. The recent sequencing, assembly and annotation of its genome are expected to further buoy the biomedical importance of this organism. In order to make the extensive data associated with the genome sequence accessible to the biomedical and planarian communities, we have created the Schmidtea mediterranea Genome Database (SmedGD). SmedGD integrates in a single web-accessible portal all available data associated with the planarian genome, including predicted and annotated genes, ESTs, protein homologies, gene expression patterns and RNAi phenotypes. Moreover, SmedGD was designed using tools provided by the Generic Model Organism Database (GMOD) project, thus making its data structure compatible with other model organism databases. Because of the unique phylogenetic position of planarians, SmedGD (http://smedgd.neuro.utah.edu) will prove useful not only to the planarian research community, but also to those engaged in developmental and evolutionary biology, comparative genomics, stem cell research and regeneration.
ISSN:0305-1048
1362-4962
DOI:10.1093/nar/gkm684