The PEDANT genome database in 2005

The PEDANT genome database (http://pedant.gsf.de) contains pre-computed bioinformatics analyses of publiclyavailablegenomes.Itsmainmissionistoprovide robust automatic annotation of the vast majority of amino acid sequences, which have not been subjected to in-depth manual curation by human experts inhigh-qualityproteinsequencedatabases.Bydesign PEDANT annotation is genome-oriented, making it possibletoexploregenomiccontextofgeneproducts, andevaluatefunctionalandstructuralcontentofgenomesusingacategory-basedquerymechanism.Atpresent, the PEDANT database contains exhaustive annotation of over 1240000 proteins from 270 eubacterial, 23 archeal and 41 eukaryotic genomes.