TABLE 1.
Salient features of currently available fungal databases in public domain
| Database (abbreviation) | URL | Yr instituted | Foundation/host organization | Curation status | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aspergillus and Aspergillosis Website | http://www.aspergillus.org.uk/ | 1998 | National Aspergillosis Centre (NAC) and University of Manchester-Fungal Infection Trust | Yes | |
| Aspergillus Genome Database (AspGD) | http://www.aspgd.org/ | 2008 | Board of Trustees, Leland Stanford Junior University, and Broad Institute | Yes | 44 |
| Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life (AFTOL) | https://aftol.umn.edu/ | 2006 | Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life (AFTOL) project, U.S. National Science Foundation | Yes | 29 |
| Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) | http://v4.boldsystems.org/ | 2007 | Canadian Centre for Biodiversity Genomics | Yes | 16 |
| Broad Institute databases | http://www.broadinstitute.org/scientific-community/data/ | 2003 | Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT | Yes (collaborative) | |
| Candida Genome Database (CGD) | http://www.candidagenome.org/ | 2004 | U.S. National Institutes of Health | Yes (except Ensembl Fungi gene annotations) | 47 |
| Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures databases (CBS-KNAW) | http://www.cbs.knaw.nl/collections/ | 1989 | CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences | Yes | |
| Doctor Fungus | http://mycosesstudygroup.org/aboutdrf/index.htm | 2007 | Mycoses study group (MSG)–Doctor Fungus Corporation | Yes | |
| EzFungi | http://www.ezbiocloud.net/ezfungi | Seoul National University and ChunLab, Inc. | Yes | 58 | |
| FungiDB | http://fungidb.org/fungidb/ | 2012 | The Eukaryotic Pathogen Database Project Team | Yes | 48 |
| Fusarium databases | http://www.cbs.knaw.nl/fusarium/, http://isolate.fusariumdb.org/ | 2005 | CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Peoria, Illinois, and Penn State University | Yes | 31, 32 |
| Index Fungorum | http://www.indexfungorum.org/names/names.asp | 2000 | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Landcare Research and Institute of Microbiology at Chinese Academy of Sciences | Yes | |
| Institut Pasteur FungiBank | http://fungibank.pasteur.fr/ | 2015 | French National Reference Center for Invasive Mycoses and Antifungals | Yes | |
| International Society for Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM-ITS) | http://its.mycologylab.org/ | 2011 | DNA Barcoding Working Group of International Society for Human and Animal Mycology | Yes (dedicated curator) | 14 |
| International Society for Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM-MLST) | http://mlst.mycologylab.org/ | 2011 | MLST Working Group of International Society for Human and Animal Mycology | Yes (dedicated curators) | 35–38 |
| Multi Locus Sequence Typing (MLST.net) | http://www.mlst.net/databases/ | 2005 | Wellcome Trust, Imperial College, UK | Yes | 39–43, 59 |
| MycoBank | http://www.mycobank.org/ | 2004 | International Mycological Association | Yes (registered mycologist) | 26 |
| Mycology Online | http://www.mycology.adelaide.edu.au/ | NAa | Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Australia | Yes | |
| National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) GenBank | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/GenBank/ | 1982 | National Center for Biotechnology Information, USA | No | 27 |
| NCBI RefSeq database | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/refseq/ | 2014 | National Center for Biotechnology Information | Yes (manual curation) | 12 |
| NCBI Whole Genome Database | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/ | National Center for Biotechnology Information | No | 27 | |
| The Fungal Genomics Resource (MycoCosm) | http://genome.jgi.doe.gov/programs/fungi/index.jsf | 2013 | 1000 Fungal Genome Project, U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute | Yes | 49 |
| Unified system for the DNA-based fungal species linked to the classification (UNITE) | https://unite.ut.ee/ | 2003 | UNITE board | Yes (user curated) | 15 |
a
NA, not applicable.