Session 7: Functional databases

This seventh session lists sources for annotations of functions in assembled metagenoms:

  • Curated families/ontologies

    • Pfam

    • KEGG

    • EggNOG

  • Large collections
    • UniProt

    • NCBI

  • Specialized databases
    • antibiotics resistance: Resfams, CARD, …

    • specific metabolism: antiSMASH, CAZy, …

    • taxonomic/phylogenetic markers: BUSCO, CheckM, mOTUs, …

    • others: virulence, effectors, toxins, plasmids, phages, CRISPR…

The recording is available on the University of Amsterdam’s media site. You can find the slides here: slides session 7.