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KEGG (Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes) is a database resource representing biological systems, such as the cell, the organism, and the ecosystem, from molecular-level information, especially large-scale molecular datasets generated by genome sequencing and other high-throughput experimental technologies. GenomeNet is database and computational services for genome research and related research areas in biomedical sciences, operated by the Kyoto University Bioinformatics Center in Japan. Both services work in collaboration putting a special focus on the visualization and interpretation of large amount of data, such as metagenome sequence data, derived from high-throughput measurement techniques.
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The number of complete genomes has been increasing dramatically. From the completion of the influenza genome in 1995, it took about 13 years (1995–2008) to complete a total of 500 species. The number of...
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Kotera, M., Moriya, Y., Tokimatsu, T., Kanehisa, M., Goto, S. (2013). KEGG and GenomeNet, New Developments, Metagenomic Analysis. In: Nelson, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Metagenomics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6418-1_694-6
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