A web-service on insufficiently identified fungal ITS sequences
emerencia is a tool designed to monitor the identity of insufficiently identified fungal ITS sequences in Genbank. It does this by keeping a fresh local copy of all fungal Genbank ITS sequences and dividing them into two categories based on their Genbank annotation: identified and insufficiently identified. All insufficiently identified sequences are, twice a week, BLASTed against all identified sequences and the best BLAST matches and their identities are stored. In addition, all insufficiently identified sequences are also BLASTed against all other insufficiently identified sequences. emerencia can be queried in a number of ways: for your favourite accession numbers of insufficiently identified sequences, for publications where insufficiently identified sequences were made use of, for insufficiently identified sequences that have a given identified sequence as their best BLAST match, and for all insufficiently identified sequences (and their best BLAST matches) that match a set of key words. emerencia now also features a new search function that allows you to search for all insufficiently identified sequences associated with any user-specified genus of fungi.
If you use emerencia in your research, please consider citing the original publication (Nilsson et al 2005).
The new search function is described in more detail in a separate publication (Ryberg et al 2009).
Check accession number of insufficiently identified sequence
Check specific publication for insufficiently identified sequences and their identity
Check identified accession number for insufficiently identified matches
Search for insufficiently identified sequences and their best matches
New search function!
List all insufficiently identified sequences that belong to a user-specified genus
emerencia relies on our being able to distinguish identified sequences from insufficiently identified ones.
Maintained by Henrik Nilsson at Goteborg University
Logotype graciously provided by Klas Benjaminsson at Bomb Mediaproduktion