Repeated CRISPR ("clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats") elements found in archaebacteria and eubacteria are believed to defend against viral infection, potentially targeting invading DNA for degradation. CRISPRdb is a database that stores information on CRISPRs that are automatically extracted from newly released genome sequence data.

Prefix

crisprdb

Keywords

life science

Links

Homepage

Contact

Christine Pourcel   0000-0002-8951-466X

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in CRISPRdb should match this regular expression:
^[0-9]+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

551115   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from CRISPRdb should match this regular expression:
^crisprdb:[0-9]+$

Example CURIE

crisprdb:551115

Publications

• 2008 CRISPRcompar: a website to compare clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats
• 2007 CRISPRFinder: a web tool to identify clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats
• 2007 The CRISPRdb database and tools to display CRISPRs and to generate dictionaries of spacers and repeats

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 5 mappings to external registries for this resource with 3 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 551115 is used to demonstrate the providers available for CRISPRdb. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.