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The FIG ID

Every gene in the NMPDR database has a unique FIG ID. It has four parts, as shown in the diagram below.

• The prefix identifies the fact that this is a FIG ID, as opposed to an alias.
• The genome id is the taxon number (from the NCBI taxonomy database) and version of the genome containing the gene. In the example above, this is 100226.1, which indicates that the gene is from version 1 of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2).
• The locus type indicates the purpose of the sequence, or feature. The most common type is peg, which stands for "protein encoding gene." Other types include:
  • rna for RNA
  • pi for a pathogenicity island
  • opr for an operon
  • prm for promoter
  • pbs for protein binding site
• The ID number makes the FIG ID unique to a specific gene.