dictyBase is an online
bioinformatics
Bioinformatics () is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data, in particular when the data sets are large and complex. As an interdisciplinary field of science, bioinformatics combin ...
database
In computing, a database is an organized collection of data stored and accessed electronically. Small databases can be stored on a file system, while large databases are hosted on computer clusters or cloud storage. The design of databases spa ...
for the
model organism ''
Dictyostelium discoideum
''Dictyostelium discoideum'' is a species of soil-dwelling amoeba belonging to the phylum Amoebozoa, infraphylum Mycetozoa. Commonly referred to as slime mold, ''D. discoideum'' is a eukaryote that transitions from a collection of unicellular ...
''.
Tools
dictyBase offers many ways of searching and retrieving data from the database:
* dictyMart - a tool for retrieving varied information on many genes (or the sequences of those genes).
* Genome Browser - browse the genes of ''D. discoideum'' in their genomic context.
References
External links
dictyBase
Developmental biology
Model organism databases
Mycetozoa
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