Table 1

Currently available HGT databases

DB Name

URL

Num. genomes

HGT prediction method

Last updated

Reference

HGT-DB

http://genomes.urv.cat/HGT-DB/ webcite

476

DNA composition

2008

[24]

HGT_SVM

http://cbcsrv.watson.ibm.com/HGT_SVM/ webcite

409

DNA composition

2006

[25]

EMU

http://emu.imb.uq.edu.au/ webcite

493

Phylogenetic

2007

[26]

DarkHorse HGT Candidate Resource

http://darkhorse.ucsd.edu/ webcite

955

Phylogenetic and DNA composition

2008

this paper

Podell et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2008 9:419   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-419