Every gene in the NMPDR database has a unique FigId. 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 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, and opr for an operon.
- The ID number makes the FigId unique to a specific gene.
Topic revision: r3 - 07 Apr 2008 - 01:01:23 - BruceParrello
NMPDR is a collaboration among researchers from the Computation Institute of the University of Chicago, the Fellowship for Interpretation of Genomes (FIG), Argonne National Laboratory, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois. NMPDR is funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract HHSN266200400042C. Banner images are copyright © Dennis Kunkel.