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The ACEDB (Durbin and Thierry-Mieg, 1991-) program has been historically
useful in establishing a number of public genome databases.
Program enhancements allow the database to operate under a wide variety
of computer environments (Unix, Win9x/NT, MacOS, HTTPd, Java).
A database, named PhytoPaths, has been created under the ACEDB environment
which displays plant-microbe interactions.
Several individual genome databases displayed at the USDA-ARS Center for Bioinformatics and
Comparative Genomics (CBCG) do include
information about plant-microbe interactions, and a few have specialized
in focusing on specific plant-microbe interactions (PathoGenes, Giese et al.,
RiceBlastDB, Yap et al.).
The PhytoPaths database contains information on plant-microbe interactions
covering several host and pathogen species. Current descriptions include
over 2,000 specific interactions.
PhytoPaths attempts to utilize recent findings about the nature of plant
disease resistance and pathogen defense responses to establish a system for
modeling and examining host-pathogen interactions.
The database may be used to identify interactions, define genes involved
in the interactions, and establish genetic maps for the pathogens and hosts.
Additional features include literature databases, disease images,
host range evaluations, germplasm interactions, nucleic acid sequences, and
comparative mapping tools. The database may be viewed at the PhytoPaths WWW
home page.