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INTEGRALL: a database and search engine for integrons, integrases and gene cassettes

Year: 2009

Type: article

Abstract: INTEGRALL is a freely available, text-based search system developed with the aim of collecting and organizing information on integrons in a single database. The current release (1.2) contains more than 4800 integron sequences and provides a public genetic repository for sequence data and nomenclature, offering scientists an easy and interactive access to integron's DNA sequences, their molecular arrangements as well as their genetic contexts.

Source: Bioinformatics

DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp105

Authors: Alexandra Moura, Mário Soares, Carolina Pereira, Nuno Leitão, Isabel Henriques, António Correia

Institutions: Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, University of Aveiro

Language: English

Topic: Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria

Subfield: Microbiology (medical)

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: Universidade de Aveiro, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Université de Limoges

Award: MOLECULAR APPROACHES TO STUDY THE PHYLOGENETIC AND FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY OF THE BACTERIONEUSTON METAGENOME