PATRIC (Pathosystems Resource Integration Center) is a bacterial bioinformatics website from the Bioinformatics Resource Center. It is an information system that integrates databases with various types of data about bacterial pathogens (transcriptomic, proteomic, structural, and biochemical) and with analysis tools. It is designed to support the biomedical research community's work on bacterial infectious diseases via these integrations of various pieces of pathogen information.
Description
PATRIC is a project of Virginia Tech's Cyberinfrastructure Division and is funded by the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). PATRIC centralizes available bacterial phylogenomic data, proteomic data, and other various experiment pieces of data linked to specific pathogens from numerous sources. The PATRIC platform provides an interface for comprehensive comparative genomics.
Bacterial Organisms Covered in the PATRIC Database
Bacillus
Bartonella
Borrelia
Brucella
Burkholderia
Campylobacter
Chlamydophila
Clostridium
Coxiella
Ehrlichia
Escherichia
Francisella
Helicobacter
Listeria
Mycobacterium
Rickettsia
Salmonella
Shigella
Staphylococcus
Vibrio
Yersinia
Other Bacteria
About Cyberinfrastructure Division and VBI
The CyberInfrastructure Division at VBI develops methods, infrastructure, and resources to help enable scientific discoveries in infectious disease research. The group applies the principles of cyberinfrastructure to integrate data, computational infrastructure, and people. CyberInfrastructure Division has developed public resources for curated, diverse molecular and literature data from various infectious disease systems, and implemented the processes, systems, and databases required to support them. It also conducts research by applying its methods and data to make discoveries of its own.
The Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech has a research platform centered on understanding the "disease triangle" of host-pathogen-environment interactions in plants, humans, and other animals.
See also
Pathogenic bacteria
Infectious disease
Antimicrobial Resistance databases
References
External links
Bioinformatics Resource Centers The NIAID page describing the goals and activities of the BRCs Pathogen Portal Hub site for the five BRCs; provides cross-BRC summary information