This glossary contains a number of definitions from the following publication:
J. M. Cock; Tessmar-Raible, K.; Boyen, C.; Viard, F. (Eds.), Introduction to Marine Genomics, vol. 1, 1st ed., Advances in Marine Genomics Vol. (Springer, 2010). Available from: http://www.springer.com/life+
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COG/KOG |
The COG (Cluster of Orthologous Groups of proteins) database consists of 138.458 proteins, which form 4873 COGs and comprise 75% of the 185,505 (predicted) proteins encoded in the 66 genomes of unicellular organisms that were used for the database. The eukaryotic orthologous groups (KOGS) include proteins from 7 eukaryotic genomes. |