Portal for Marine Ecological GenomiX (MegX)One central theme of the MicroB3 Project is to enable open access and a transparent data flow for marine microbial ecosystems research and biotechnology. This data flow includes contextual data about the environment as well as sequence data from initial sampling to web based end-user access, as well as to various data products derived from the data by the various analysis pipelines. One of the main tangible products of MicroB3 is the Microbial Ecological Genomics Database (MegDB). MegDB includes several extensions which allow efficient integrated access to molecular sequences and environmental data. It is also used in an architecture which bridges the gap between analytical pipelines and storage of data in a scalable manner. MegDB serves as the main data integration platform of the Portal for Marine Ecological GenomiX (MegX), as part of the MicroB3 Information System. MegX is a website for specialized georeferenced databases and tools for the analysis of marine bacterial, archaeal, and phage genomes and metagenomes. |
The MicroB3 Project (Microbial Biodiversity, Bioinformatics and Biotechnology) (EU FP7 project)
The MegX database, MegDB (Microbial Ecological Genomics DataBase), is a collection of publicly available georeferenced marine bacterial and archaeal genomes and metagenomes, including the Global Ocean Sampling (GOS) reads.
MegX Tools:
MegX also provides access to tools developed by the Microbial Genomics Group at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology.