Title
Dbcan: A Web Resource For Automated Carbohydrate-Active Enzyme Annotation
Abstract
Carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) are very important to the biotech industry, particularly the emerging biofuel industry because CAZymes are responsible for the synthesis, degradation and modification of all the carbohydrates on Earth. We have developed a web resource, dbCAN (http://csbl.bmb.uga.edu/dbCAN/annotate.), to provide a capability for automated CAZyme signature domain-based annotation for any given protein data set (e.g. proteins from a newly sequenced genome) submitted to our server. To accomplish this, we have explicitly defined a signature domain for every CAZyme family, derived based on the CDD (conserved domain database) search and literature curation. We have also constructed a hidden Markov model to represent the signature domain of each CAZyme family. These CAZyme family-specific HMMs are our key contribution and the foundation for the automated CAZyme annotation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1093/nar/gks479
NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Keywords
Field
DocType
biofuels,enzymes,renewable energy,genomes,metagenome,enzyme activation,bioenergy,databases,biotechnology,internet,carbohydrate metabolism,sequence alignment
Genome,Web resource,Annotation,CAZy,Biology,Conserved Domain Database,Metagenomics,Molecular Sequence Annotation,Genetics,Hidden Markov model
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
40
W1
0305-1048
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.80
5
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yanbin Yin1317.75
Xizeng Mao21177.56
Jincai Yang370.80
Xin Chen4163.47
Fenglou Mao5929.31
Ying Xu652861.00