Recent developments of software and database in microbial genomics and functional genomics

摘要

With the rapid progress in next-generation sequencing technologies and the exponential increase in available microbial genomes, mining biological knowledge from these genomes represents a challenge to the whole scientific community. In this themed issue, we present the invited review articles by the scientists who have made significant contributions in this field to review the state of the art of their influential work and discuss the upcoming challenges for the further development.