Technical overview

The website was created using Python programming language with Django framework. Analysis pipeline uses BLASTn, IQ-TREE, mafft and trimal software:

  1. Input sequence is aligned to the appropriate sequences (LSU or CYTB) from the database
  2. Sequences are aligned using MAFFT for phylogenetic tree building
  3. Trimal is used in order to refine multiple sequence alignment
  4. IQ-TREE is used in order to generate phylogenetic tree

Prototheca-ID Team

Database curator: Tomasz Jagielski, PhD, DSc
Website Managers: Przemysław Decewicz, PhD, Mikołaj Dziurzyński, MSc, Mateusz Iskra, MSc

The Prototheca-ID website was created at the University of Warsaw (Poland) in the Department of Medical Microbiology in cooperation with the Department of Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology.

The website is maintained by Mikołaj Dziurzyński

The Prototheca-ID database was conceptualized and the project was coordinated by Dr. Tomasz Jagielski