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Hymenoptera Genome Database: new genomes and annotation datasets for improved go enrichment and orthologue analyses

Amy T Walsh, Deborah A. Triant, J. J. Le Tourneau, Md Shamimuzzaman, Christine G. Elsik

2021Nucleic Acids Research54 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

We report an update of the Hymenoptera Genome Database (HGD; http://HymenopteraGenome.org), a genomic database of hymenopteran insect species. The number of species represented in HGD has nearly tripled, with fifty-eight hymenopteran species, including twenty bees, twenty-three ants, eleven wasps and four sawflies. With a reorganized website, HGD continues to provide the HymenopteraMine genomic data mining warehouse and JBrowse/Apollo genome browsers integrated with BLAST. We have computed Gene Ontology (GO) annotations for all species, greatly enhancing the GO annotation data gathered from UniProt with more than a ten-fold increase in the number of GO-annotated genes. We have also generated orthology datasets that encompass all HGD species and provide orthologue clusters for fourteen taxonomic groups. The new GO annotation and orthology data are available for searching in HymenopteraMine, and as bulk file downloads.

Topics & Concepts

BiologyAnnotationGenomeUniProtHymenopteraGene ontologyDatabaseComputational biologyGeneBioinformaticsGeneticsZoologyComputer scienceGene expressionPlant and animal studiesInsect and Arachnid Ecology and BehaviorInsect symbiosis and bacterial influences