The Protist Ribosomal Reference database (PR2): a catalog of unicellular eukaryote Small Sub-Unit rRNA sequences with curated taxonomy

作者：Laure Guillou, Dipankar Bachar, Stéphane Audic, David Bass, Cédric Berney, Lucie Bittner, Christophe Boutte, Gaëtan Burgaud, Colomban de Vargas, Johan Decelle, Javier del Campo, John R. Dolan, Micah Dunthorn, Bente Edvardsen, Maria Holzmann, Wiebe H. C. F. Kooistra, Enrique Lara, Noan Le Bescot, Ramiro Logares, Frédéric Mahé, Ramón Massana, Marina Montresor, Raphaël Morard, Fabrice Not, Jan Pawłowski, Ian Probert, Anne-Laure Sauvadet, Raffaele Siano, Thorsten Stoeck, Daniel Vaulot, Pascal Zimmermann, Richard Christen · 发表于：Nucleic Acids Research · 年份：2012 · DOI：10.1093/nar/gks1160 · 被引用次数：2459 · 研究领域：Protist diversity and phylogeny、Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology、Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies

The interrogation of genetic markers in environmental meta-barcoding studies is currently seriously hindered by the lack of taxonomically curated reference data sets for the targeted genes. The Protist Ribosomal Reference database (PR(2), http://ssu-rrna.org/) provides a unique access to eukaryotic small sub-unit (SSU) ribosomal RNA and DNA sequences, with curated taxonomy. The database mainly consists of nuclear-encoded protistan sequences. However, metazoans, land plants, macrosporic fungi and eukaryotic organelles (mitochondrion, plastid and others) are also included because they are useful for the analysis of high-troughput sequencing data sets. Introns and putative chimeric sequences have been also carefully checked. Taxonomic assignation of sequences consists of eight unique taxonomic fields. In total, 136 866 sequences are nuclear encoded, 45 708 (36 501 mitochondrial and 9657 chloroplastic) are from organelles, the remaining being putative chimeric sequences. The website allows the users to download sequences from the entire and partial databases (including representative sequences after clustering at a given level of similarity). Different web tools also allow searches by sequence similarity. The presence of both rRNA and rDNA sequences, taking into account introns (crucial for eukaryotic sequences), a normalized eight terms ranked-taxonomy and updates of new GenBank releases were made possible by a long-term collaboration between experts in taxonomy and computer sci...