Background: The ability to rapidly characterize an unknown microorganism is critical in both responding to infectious disease and biodefense. To do this, we need some way of anticipating an organism's phenotype based on the molecules encoded by its genome. However, the link between molecular composition (i.e. genotype) and phenotype for microbes is not obvious. While there have been several studies that address this challenge, none have yet proposed a large-scale method integrating curated biological information. Here we utilize a systematic approach to discover genotype-phenotype associations that combines phenotypic information from a biomedical informatics database, GIDEON, with the molecular information contained in
Goh et al. propose a method to nd genotype-phenotype relations which combines molecular and phenotypic information REF .
Integration of curated databases to identify genotype-phenotype associations
BMC Genomics
BMC Genomics
Biology Medicine