VIMSS Computational Core: Comparative Analysis of Regulatory Systems in Environmental Microbes

Background. The VIMSS Computational Core group is tasked with data management, statistical data analysis, modeling, and comparative and evolutionary genomics for the larger VIMSS effort. We have matured many of our analyses and VIMSS data into our flagship comparative functional microbial genomics tool MicrobesOnline (http://microbesonline.org). We have used this framework to interpret the data from the VIMSS physiological pipeline and in more global analysis of genome evolution and function.