VRprofile
Bioinformatics tools used by VRprofile
  • PostgreSQL, an open source relational database management system
  • MultiGeneBlast, an open source tool for identification of homologs of multigene modules.
  • HMMER, Biosequence analysis using profile hidden Markov models
  • WU-BLAST, the Washington University improved version of BLAST
  • MUSCLE, protein multiple sequence alignment
  • Jalview, a multiple alignment editor written in Java
  • CGview, generate circular genome maps
  • MUMmer, genome alignment and scaffold reorder
Public database, to which VRprofile has a hyperlink path
  • NCBI
  • NCBI COG
  • Uniprot KB
  • STRING
  • NCBI CDD
  • Sanger Pfam
  • T3DB, an integrated database for bacterial Type III Secretion System and cognate effectors
  • T3SEdb, data warehousing of virulence effectors secreted by the bacterial Type III Secretion System
  • CONJscan, Search for relaxases and key components of type IV secretion systems in proteomes using an HMM profiles database
  • AtlasT4SS, a curated database for type IV secretion systems
  • CONJdb, allows searching and browsing Conjugative Type IV Secretion and Mobilization Systems via a graphical interface
  • SecReT4, a database for gene clusters encoding type IV secretion system
  • SecReT6, a web-based resource for bacterial type VI secretion system
Other tools or servers of interest
  • NCBI Microbial Genomes
  • VFDB, Virulence Factor database
  • ARDB, Antibiotic Resistance Genes Database
  • CARD, The Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database
  • ACLAME, A Classification of Genetic Mobile Elements
  • DEG, Database of essential genes
  • DrugBank, a knowledgebase for drugs, drug actions and drug targets
  • TTD, Therapeutic Target Database
  • BacMet, Antibacterial biocide and metal resistance genes database
  • PhyML, New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies
  • iTOL, Interactive Tree Of Life is an online tool for the display and manipulation of phylogenetic trees
  • T3DB, an integrated database for bacterial Type III Secretion System and cognate effectors
  • T3SEdb, data warehousing of virulence effectors secreted by the bacterial Type III Secretion System
  • AtlasT4SS, a curated database for type IV secretion systems
  • SecReT4, a database for gene clusters encoding type IV secretion system
  • MultiGeneBlast, an open source tool for identification of homologs of multigene modules such as operons and gene clusters. It is based on a reformatting of the FASTA headers of NCBI GenBank protein entries, using which it can track down their source nucleotide and coordinates.
  • SSPred, a prediction server based on SVM for the identification and classification of proteins involved in bacterial secretion systems.
  • PHAST(PHAge Search Tool) is a web server designed to rapidly and accurately identify, annotate and graphically display prophage sequences within bacterial genomes or plasmids.
  • GOLD, Genomes Online Database, is a World Wide Web resource for comprehensive access to information regarding genome and metagenome sequencing projects, and their associated metadata, around the world.