IMG/M: A data management and analysis system for metagenomes

Page 1 of 23 Nucleic Acids Research IMG/M: A data management and analysis system for metagenomes Victor M. Markowitz 1 , Natalia N. Ivanova 4 , Ernest Szeto 1 , Krishna Palaniappan 1 , Ken Chu 1 , Daniel Dalevi 1 , I-Min A. Chen 1 , Yuri Grechkin 1 , Inna Dubchak 2 , Iain Anderson 4 , Athanasios Lykidis 4 , Konstantinos Mavromatis 4 , Philip Hugenholtz 3 , and Nikos C. Kyrpides 4 * Biological Data Management and Technology Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, USA, Genomics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, USA, Microbial Ecology Program, Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, 2800 Mitchell Drive, Walnut Creek, USA, Genome Biology Program, Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, 2800 Mitchell Drive, Walnut Creek, USA, *To whom correspondence should be addressed. r Fo ABSTRACT IMG/M is a data management and analysis system for microbial community genomes (metagenomes) hosted at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI). IMG/M consists of metagenome data integrated with isolate microbial genomes from the Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) system. IMG/M provides IMG’s comparative data analysis tools extended to handle metagenome data, together with metagenome-specific analysis tools. IMG/M is available at http://img.jgi.doe.gov/m. Pe er Re vi ew