The Comprehensive Microbial Resource

One challenge presented by large-scale genome sequencing efforts is effecti ve display of uniform information to the scientific community. The Comprehe nsive Microbial Resource (CMR) contains robust annotation of all complete m icrobial genomes and allows for a wide variety of data retrievals. The bact erial information has been placed on the Web at http://www.tigr.org/CMR for retrieval using standard web browsing technology. Retrievals can be based on protein properties such as molecular weight or hydrophobicity, GC-conten t, functional role assignments and taxonomy. The CMR also has special web-b ased tools to allow data mining using pre-run homology searches, whole geno me dot-plots, batch downloading and traversal across genomes using st varie ty of datatypes.