With the growing number of available genomes, the need for an environment to support effective comparative analysis increases. The original SEED Project was started in 2003 by the Fellowship for Interpretation of Genomes (FIG) as a largely unfunded open source effort. Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago joined the project, and now much of the activity occurs at those two institutions (as well as the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Hope college, San Diego State University, the Burnham Institute and a number of other institutions). The cooperative effort focuses on the development of the comparative genomics environment called the SEED and, more importantly, on the development of curated genomic data. This prefix provides identifiers for molecular roles that describe the function of one or more proteins in microbes and plants.
seed.roleA 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 Histidinol dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.23) is used to demonstrate the providers
available for The SEED. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below.
A guide for curating additional providers can be found
here.