Community cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis: the CAMERA resource

The Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis (CAMERA, http://camera.calit2.net/) is a database and associated computational infrastructure that provides a single system for depositing, locating, analyzing, visualizing and sharing data about microbial biology through an advanced web-based analysis portal. CAMERA collects and links metadata relevant to environmental metagenome data sets with annotation in a semantically-aware environment allowing users to write expressive semantic queries against the database. To meet the needs of the research community, users are able to query metadata categories such as habitat, sample type, time, location and other environmental physicochemical parameters. CAMERA is compliant with the standards promulgated by the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC), and sustains a role within the GSC in extending standards for content and format of the metagenomic data and metadata and its submission to the CAMERA repository. ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: NAR
• Authors: Shulei Sun, Jing Chen, Weizhong Li, Ilkay Altintas, Abel W. Lin, Steven Peltier, Karen Stocks, Eric E. Allen, Mark H. Ellisman, Jeffrey S. Grethe, John Wooley
• Keywords: Camera, Computer Vision, Environmental Metagenome Data, Metadata, NAR 2011