The Genes Mapserver (formerly Metagenomes Mapserver) offers a sample-centric view on (meta-) genomic data from various sequencing surveys. An interactive map allows overlay of the sampling sites on the world map together with maps of environmental data layers. The Genes Mapserver also offers extraction of interpolated values from time-series of several physico-chemical and biological parameters such as temperature, dissolved oxygen, nitrate and chlorophyll concentration.
The Genes Mapserver 3.0 is developed by the MetaFunctions team.
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The Genes Mapserver 3.0 will be available soon (Kottman R et al., submitted).
The Genomes
Mapserver 1.0 was published in NAR database issue:
Lombardot T, Kottmann R, Pfeffer H, Richter M, Teeling H, Quast C,
Glöckner FO. Megx.net -- database resources for marine ecological
genomics. Nucleic Acids Res. 2006 Jan 1;34 (Database issue):
D390-393. [Pubmed
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MetaFunctions is a research project funded by the European Commission within Framework Programme 6 under the NEST - Newly Emerging Science and Technology Adventure initiative. The MetaFunctions project, which started on October 2005 is pooling expertise in bioinformatics, computer science, geographical information systems and marine sciences to develop a data-mining system that correlates genetic patterns in genomes and metagenomes with contextual environmental data. Please check the MetaFunctions webpage.
Who made it all possible?Funding: EU-project 'MetaFunctions'
The Genomes Mapserver is provided by the Microbial Genomics Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Global Resource Information Database (for general geographic information layers): GEO data portal, GRID-Geneva