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BioSurfDB
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BioSurfDB is a online database for biodegradation and biosurfactants. It is a curated relational information system integrating data from: (i) metagenomes; (ii) organisms; (iii) biodegradation relevant genes; proteins and their metabolic pathways; (iv) bioremediation experiments results, with specific pollutants treatment efficiencies by surfactant producing organisms; and (v) a biosurfactant-curated list, grouped by producing organism, surfactant name, class and reference. The main goal of this repository is to gather information on the characterization of biological compounds and mechanisms involved in biosurfactant production and/or biodegradation and make it available in a curated way and associated with a number of computational tools to support studies of genomic and metagenomic data.

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Jorge S. Oliveira, Wydemberg Araújo, Ana Isabela Lopes Sales, Alaine de Brito Guerra, Sinara Carla da Silva Araújo, Ana Tereza Ribeiro de Vasconcelos, Lucymara F. Agnez-Lima, Ana Teresa Freitas, BioSurfDB: knowledge and algorithms to support biosurfactants and biodegradation studies, Database, Volume 2015, 2015, bav033, https://doi.org/10.1093/database/bav033