PHI-base - the Pathogen–Host Interactions database

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Urban, M., Cuzick, A., Seager, J., Wood, V., Rutherford, K., De Silva, N., Venkatesh, S. Y, Martinez, M. C., Pedro, H., Yates, A. D., Hassani-Pak, K. and Hammond-Kosack, K. E. 2020. PHI-base - the Pathogen–Host Interactions database . Nucleic Acids Research. 48 (Database issue D1), pp. D613-D620. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkz904

AuthorsUrban, M., Cuzick, A., Seager, J., Wood, V., Rutherford, K., De Silva, N., Venkatesh, S. Y, Martinez, M. C., Pedro, H., Yates, A. D., Hassani-Pak, K. and Hammond-Kosack, K. E.
Abstract

The pathogen–host interactions database (PHI-base) is available at www.phi-base.org. PHI-base contains expertly curated molecular and biological information on genes proven to affect the outcome of pathogen–host interactions reported in peer reviewed research articles. PHI-base also curates literature describing specific gene alterations that did not affect the disease interaction phenotype, in order to provide complete datasets for comparative purposes. Viruses are not included, due to their extensive coverage in other databases. In this article, we describe the increased data content of PHI-base, plus new database features and further integration with complementary databases. The release of PHI-base version 4.8 (September 2019) contains 3454 manually curated references, and provides information on 6780 genes from 268 pathogens, tested on 210 hosts in 13,801 interactions. Prokaryotic and eukaryotic pathogens are represented in almost equal numbers. Host species consist of approximately 60% plants (split 50:50 between cereal and non-cereal plants), and 40% other species of medical and/or environmental importance. The information available on pathogen effectors has risen by more than a third, and the entries for pathogens that infect crop species of global importance has dramatically increased in this release. We also briefly describe the future direction of the PHI-base project, and some existing problems with the PHI-base curation process.

KeywordsMultiple pathogen species; Multiple host species; Manually curated literature; Fully downloadable content; BLAST tool
Year of Publication2020
JournalNucleic Acids Research
Journal citation48 (Database issue D1), pp. D613-D620
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkz904
Open accessPublished as ‘gold’ (paid) open access
FunderBiotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Funder project or codePhytoPath, an infrastructure for hundreds of plant pathogen genomes
Designing Future Wheat (DFW) [ISPG]
BBSRC Strategic Programme in Smart Crop Protection
Publisher's version
Copyright license
CC BY
Accepted author manuscript
Copyright license
CC BY
Output statusPublished
Publication dates
Online16 Nov 2019
Publication process dates
Accepted14 Nov 2019
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP)
ISSN0305-1048

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