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Fitness Browser

kescience_fitnessbrowser

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Philosophy

Connect genotype to phenotype through systematic mutagenesis. Understand which genes are essential for growth, which provide advantages under specific conditions, and how genetic background affects fitness.

Data sources: RB-TnSeq experiments KEGG MetaCyc SEED

Citation & Attribution

Provider: Price Lab, LBNL

Cite as: Price MN et al. (2018) Mutant phenotypes for thousands of bacterial genes of unknown function. Nature 557:503-509

DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0124-0

Website: https://fit.genomics.lbl.gov/

Scale

40+
organisms
1000+
experiments
90+
tables

Schema Browser

specog

Specific phenotypes aggregated by ortholog group.

Column Type Description
ogId string Ortholog group ID
expGroup string Experiment group
condition string Condition description
orgId string FK -> `organism.orgId`
locusId string FK -> `gene.locusId`
minFit string Minimum fitness in this condition
maxFit string Maximum fitness in this condition
minT string Minimum t-statistic
maxT string Maximum t-statistic
nInOG string Number of genes in ortholog group

Sample Queries

Get organisms in the fitness browser

SELECT *
FROM kescience_fitnessbrowser.organism
LIMIT 20

Get fitness scores for a gene

SELECT
  e.condition,
  f.fitness,
  f.t_score
FROM kescience_fitnessbrowser.fitness f
JOIN kescience_fitnessbrowser.experiment e
  ON f.experiment_id = e.experiment_id
WHERE f.gene_id = 'YOUR_GENE_ID'
ORDER BY ABS(f.fitness) DESC
LIMIT 20

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