Abstract

Objectives

‘Integrative and Conjugative Elements’ (ICEs) and ‘Integrative and Mobilizable Elements’ (IMEs) are two classes of mobile genetic elements that are complex to detect and delineate. Therefore, they are yet poorly annotated in bacterial genomes. FirmiData provides to the scientific community of microbiologists and bioinformaticians a reference resource of annotated ICEs and of IMEs from Firmicutes. It illustrates their prevalence and their diversity but also gives information on their organization.

FirmiData was designed to assist the scientific community in identifying and annotating these elements by using the sequences of these ICEs and IMEs for the identification of related elements in other genomes of Firmicutes. Therefore, Firmidata meets the needs of the scientific community.

Data description

Firmidata provides a manually curated annotation of 98 ICEs and 148 IMEs identified in 40 chromosomes of Firmicutes. The delineation at the nucleotide level of almost all of these elements allows for the characterization of the genes they carry.

Details

Title
FirmiData: a set of 40 genomes of Firmicutes with a curated annotation of ICEs and IMEs
Author
Guédon, Gérard; Lao, Julie; Payot, Sophie; Lacroix, Thomas; Chiapello, Hélène; Leblond-Bourget, Nathalie  VIAFID ORCID Logo 
Pages
1-4
Section
Data note
Publication year
2022
Publication date
2022
Publisher
BioMed Central
e-ISSN
17560500
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-022-06036-w
ProQuest document ID
2666562324
Copyright
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