ChlamydiaeDB.org

Chlamydiae are a unique group of obligate intracellular bacteria, including some of the most important bacterial pathogens of animals and humans. Today there are 11 chlamydial genomes publicly available, some others are about to be finished and/or unpublished. As there are currently no means to genetically modify chlamydiae, genome sequences and comparative genomics are of utmost importance for our understanding of these elusive microorganisms.

ChlamydiaeDB is a central resource which allows the exploration of genome sequence data in a comparative manner designed specifically to meet the requirements of chlamydia research. ChlamydiaeDB contains a large number of up-to-date analyses, automatically derived as well as manually curated annotations, and a number of proprietary features including literature links provided by a novel powerful automated text mining tool. In addition, tools to comment and update the annotation of proteins at ChlamydiaeDB are currently under development.

The ultimate goal of this resource is to become a community portal that provides easy access, represents the complete available current knowledge about genomics of chlamydiae and supports individual analyses such as microarray experiments.

ChlamydiaeDB is a joint project of the Department of Genome Oriented Bioinformatics at the Technische Universität München and the Department of Microbial Ecology at the University of Vienna.

ChlamydiaeDB is funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF.