GeMInA, Genomic Metadata for Infectious Agents, a geospatial surveillance pathogen database.

ABSTRACT: The Gemina system (http://gemina.igs.umaryland.edu) identifies, standardizes and integrates the outbreak metadata for the breadth of NIAID category A-C viral and bacterial pathogens, thereby providing an investigative and surveillance tool describing the Who [Host], What [Disease, Symptom], When [Date], Where [Location] and How [Pathogen, Environmental Source, Reservoir, Transmission Method] for each pathogen. The Gemina database will provide a greater understanding of the interactions of viral and bacterial pathogens with their hosts and infectious diseases through in-depth literature text-mining, integrated outbreak metadata, outbreak surveillance tools, extensive ontology development, metadata curation and representative genomic sequence identification and standards development. The Gem

SUBMITTER: Schriml LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2808878 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature