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Introduction

Symbiotic interactions between protists and prokaryotes, described with structured data.

The aim is to model information about:

  • Taxonomy of both hosts and symbionts, with links to external databases (primarily NCBI)
  • Localization of symbionts in cellular compartments of the host cell, using Gene Ontology terms
  • Nature of biotic interactions, if this is known, using Relation Ontology terms (although there are some limitations in this ontology for describing mutualistic interactions)
  • Analytical methods used to study the symbioses

The information was originally collected as part of my doctoral dissertation (2017).

Example entry: Parduczia sp. ("brown ciliate" of Beinart et al.)