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Fourmidable: a database for ant genomics

Yannick Wurm1 email, Paolo Uva2 email, Frédéric Ricci1 email, John Wang1 email, Stephanie Jemielity3 email, Christian Iseli4,5 email, Laurent Falquet5 email and Laurent Keller1 email

1Department of Ecology and Evolution, Biophore, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

2Istituto di Ricerche di Biologia Molecolare, Merck Research Laboratories, 00040 Pomezia, Rome, Italy

3Institut for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, CH-3010 Bern, Switzerland

4Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

5Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

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BMC Genomics 2009, 10:5doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-5

Published: 6 January 2009

Additional files

Additional file 1:

Notes on implementation. We provide several details about decisions made relative to the implementation of the database, and the assembly pipeline.

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Additional file 2:

List of tasks parallelized on the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Vital-IT computing cluster. Some tasks were parallelized for increased execution speed.

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Additional file 3:

List of software parameters that differ from default. For the assembly and annotation pipelines, default parameters were sometimes unsatisfactory. This table summarizes the parameters used when they differed from default.

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Additional file 4:

List of data available in text format. Some of the data in Fourmidable can be downloaded in text format.

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