VFDB

VFDB also known as Virulence Factor Database is a database that provides scientist quick access to virulence factors in bacterial pathogens.[1] It can be navigated and browsed using genus or words. A BLAST tool is provided for search against known virulence factors.[2] VFDB contains a collection of 16 important bacterial pathogens.[1] Perl scripts were used to extract positions and sequences of VF from GenBank.[3] Clusters of Orthologous Groups (COG) was used to update incomplete annotations.[1] More information was obtained by NCBI. VFDB was built on Linux operation systems on DELL PowerEdge 1600SC servers.

Virulence Factor Database

Content
Description	A database that tracks bacterial virulence factors
Data types captured	Pathogenic bacteria
Organisms	Bacteria
Contact
Primary citation	PMID 15608208
Access
Website	www.mgc.ac.cn/VFs/main.htm
Miscellaneous
Bookmarkable entities	yes

See also

• Antimicrobial resistance databases

References

1. Chen, L. (2004-12-17). "VFDB: a reference database for bacterial virulence factors". Nucleic Acids Research. 33 (Database issue): D325–D328. doi:10.1093/nar/gki008. ISSN 1362-4962. PMC 539962. PMID 15608208.
2. Altschul, S. (1997-09-01). "Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs". Nucleic Acids Research. 25 (17): 3389–3402. doi:10.1093/nar/25.17.3389. ISSN 1362-4962. PMC 146917. PMID 9254694.
3. Benson, D. A.; Karsch-Mizrachi, I.; Lipman, D. J.; Ostell, J.; Sayers, E. W. (2009-01-01). "GenBank". Nucleic Acids Research. 37 (Database): D26–D31. doi:10.1093/nar/gkn723. ISSN 0305-1048. PMC 2686462. PMID 18940867.