DictyBase

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|description = genome portal for the Amoebozoa.

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|center = Northwestern University

|laboratory = dictyBase, Northwestern University Biomedical Informatics Center and Center for Genetic Medicine

|author = Pascale Gaudet

|citation = Gaudet & al. (2011)

|released = 2004

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|url = http://www.dictybase.org

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dictyBase is an online bioinformatics database for the model organism Dictyostelium discoideum.{{cite journal |last=Gaudet|first=Pascale|author2=Fey Petra |author3=Basu Siddhartha |author4=Bushmanova Yulia A |author5=Dodson Robert |author6=Sheppard Kerry A |author7=Just Eric M |author8=Kibbe Warren A |author9=Chisholm Rex L |date=Jan 2011|title=dictyBase update 2011: web 2.0 functionality and the initial steps towards a genome portal for the Amoebozoa|journal = Nucleic Acids Res.|volume=39|issue=Database issue|pages=D620–4| pmid = 21087999|doi = 10.1093/nar/gkq1103| pmc =3013695 }}{{cite book |author1=Petra Fey |author2=Robert J. Dodson |author3=Siddhartha Basu |author4=Rex L. Chisholm |title=Dictyostelium discoideum Protocols |chapter=One Stop Shop for Everything Dictyostelium: DictyBase and the Dicty Stock Center in 2012 |date=8 February 2013 |series=Methods in Molecular Biology |volume=983 |pages=59–92 |doi=10.1007/978-1-62703-302-2_4 |pmc=3762881 |pmid=23494302|isbn = 978-1-62703-301-5}}

Tools

dictyBase offers many ways of searching and retrieving data from the database:

  • dictyMart - a tool for retrieving varied information on many genes (or the sequences of those genes).
  • Genome Browser - browse the genes of D. discoideum in their genomic context.

References

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