Community cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis: the CAMERA resource - PubMed (original) (raw)
. 2011 Jan;39(Database issue):D546-51.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkq1102. Epub 2010 Nov 2.
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- PMID: 21045053
- PMCID: PMC3013694
- DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq1102
Community cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis: the CAMERA resource
Shulei Sun et al. Nucleic Acids Res. 2011 Jan.
Abstract
The Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis (CAMERA, http://camera.calit2.net/) is a database and associated computational infrastructure that provides a single system for depositing, locating, analyzing, visualizing and sharing data about microbial biology through an advanced web-based analysis portal. CAMERA collects and links metadata relevant to environmental metagenome data sets with annotation in a semantically-aware environment allowing users to write expressive semantic queries against the database. To meet the needs of the research community, users are able to query metadata categories such as habitat, sample type, time, location and other environmental physicochemical parameters. CAMERA is compliant with the standards promulgated by the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC), and sustains a role within the GSC in extending standards for content and format of the metagenomic data and metadata and its submission to the CAMERA repository. To ensure wide, ready access to data and annotation, CAMERA also provides data submission tools to allow researchers to share and forward data to other metagenomics sites and community data archives such as GenBank. It has multiple interfaces for easy submission of large or complex data sets, and supports pre-registration of samples for sequencing. CAMERA integrates a growing list of tools and viewers for querying, analyzing, annotating and comparing metagenome and genome data.
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