Repeated CRISPR ("clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats") elements found in archaebacteria and eubacteria are believed to defend against viral infection, potentially targeting invading DNA for degradation. CRISPRdb is a database that stores information on CRISPRs that are automatically extracted from newly released genome sequence data.

Prefix

crisprdb

Keywords

annotation crispr dna sequence genome/gene life science region sequence

Links

Homepage

Publications

2008 CRISPRcompar: a website to compare clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats

2007 CRISPRFinder: a web tool to identify clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats

2007 The CRISPRdb database and tools to display CRISPRs and to generate dictionaries of spacers and repeats

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local unique identifiers in CRISPRdb should match this regular expression:
^[0-9]+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

551115   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from CRISPRdb should match this regular expression:
^crisprdb:[0-9]+$

Example CURIE

crisprdb:551115

Contact

Christine Pourcel   0000-0002-8951-466X

Mappings from records in Semantic Farm to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 5 mappings to external registries with 3 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 551115 is used to demonstrate the providers available for CRISPRdb. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.