VFDB

VFDB also known as Virulence Factor Database is a database that provides scientist quick access to virulence factors in bacterial pathogens.^[1] It can be navigated and browsed using genus or words. A BLAST tool is provided for search against known virulence factors.^[2] VFDB contains a collection of 16 important bacterial pathogens.^[1] Perl scripts were used to extract positions and sequences of VF from GenBank.^[3] Clusters of Orthologous Groups (COG) was used to update incomplete annotations.^[1] More information was obtained by NCBI. VFDB was built on Windows operation systems on DELL PowerEdge 1600SC servers.^{[citation needed]}