Title

Fungome: Annotating proteins implicated in fungal pathogenesis 

Authors

Ranganath Gudimella¹, Sivaramaiah Nallapeta¹, Pritish Varadwaj², Prashanth Suravajhala^3,*

Affiliation

¹Onan Biotech, Malkajgiri, Secunderabad 500047, AP, India; ²Bioinformatics division, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad 211012, UP, India; ³Department of Science, Systems and Models, Roskilde University, Universitetsvej 1, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark
 

Email

prash@bioclues.org * Corresponding author

Article Type

Hypothesis

Date

Received June 29, 2010; Accepted August 25, 2010; Published November 1, 2010
 

Sequencing genomes of different pathogenic fungi produced plethora of genetic information. This “omics” data might be of great interest to probe strain diversity, identify virulence factors and complementary genes in other fungal species, and importantly in predicting the role of proteins specific to pathogenesis in humans. We propose a component called “fungome” for those fungal proteins implicated in pathogenesis which, we believe, will allow researchers to improve the annotation of fungal proteins.
 

Keywords

Fungome, omics, pathogenesis

Citation

Prashanth et al. Bioinformation, 5 (5) 202-207, 2010

Edited by

P. Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.