The MicroScope platform is an integrative resource that supports systematic and efficient revision of microbial genome annotation, data management and comparative analysis. Starting from the results of our syntactic, functional and relational annotation pipelines, MicroScope provides an integrated environment for the expert annotation and comparative analysis of prokaryotic genomes. It combines tools and graphical interfaces to analyze genomes and to perform the manual curation of gene function in a comparative genomics and metabolic context. The resource provides data from completed and ongoing genome projects together with post-genomic experiments (i.e. transcriptomics, re-sequencing of evolved strains, mutant collections) allowing users to improve the understanding of gene functions.
The MicroScope platform is constantly evolving both in terms of data content and of new analysis tools some of them being developed in the context of our research projects.
Last news about MicroScope:
Dear MicroScope Users, We recently discovered that some gene fissions (shown on the Gene Fusion/Fission page) were not detected correctly: in some cases, when the gene is split in several parts, only one correspondence is displayed. Note that gene fusions are not affected. We have corrected the bug and updated ...
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Dear MicroScope users, Due to a maintenance operation MicroScope will be offline for few hours on Thursday August 17th from 02:00PM CEST. We apologize for any inconvenience,The LABGeM team ...
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The version 3.15.2 of the platform is now deployed: The DBCAN workflow has been updated to use dbCAN v2.MicroScope now includes some metadata from a recent article (see Joshua S. Madin et al., A synthesis of bacterial and archaeal phenotypic trait data. Sci Data 7, 170 (2020)). More precisely, we ...
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In order to optimize data management in MicroScope we have decided to proceed to several changes. First we have decided to remove obsolete genome assemblies from MicroScope. This step concerns genomes from GenBank which have been deleted from the database (see the list here). If you need these genomes for ...
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The version 3.15.1 of the platform is now deployed: In this version, we introduced management of deleted synteny results for genomes that are no longer consulted. More on this soon. We also fixed various bugs. Please report us any bugs you may meet ...
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The version v3.15.0 of the platform is now deployed. The main novelty in this version is that we now use KEGG Orthology (KO) computed by KOfamScan to map genes to EC numbers and KEGG pathways instead of PRIAM results (see the documentation here). PRIAM results are no longer available in ...
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The version v3.14.3 of the platform is now deployed: The Access Rights Managment page now uses the new genome selector.A bug prevented SwissProt/TrEMBL annotations to be displayed on the gene info page. This is now corrected.Links to the PPanGGoLiN tool (used on the Regions of Genomic Plasticity - PanRGP page) ...
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MicroScope services (integration of new genomic data) will be closed from December 19th 2020 to January 4th 2021. User support will also be very limited during this period. The LABGeM team wishes you a happy holiday season ...
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Since 2004, MicroScope has offered a genome analysis service to a large community of microbiologists. The current resources of MicroScope are largely provided by the CEA and the CNRS through the funding of permanent staff and IT resources with the support of the French Institute of Bioinformatics of which the ...
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After the cancellation of 2020 trainings due to the Covid-19 crisis, we are pleased to inform you about MicroScope professional training courses in 2021. Two sessions of the «Annotation and analysis of prokaryotic genomes using the MicroScope platform» course are planned at the University of Evry: Monday 15th March 2021 ...
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