Gene database of Thermococcus kodakarensis KOD1

Thermococcus
kodakarensis is a thermophilic archaeon whose repertoire of thermostable
enzymes have found use in industrial biotechnology applications. Capable of surviving
at high temperatures of 80 to 95 oC, the archaeon’s growth is also
stimulated by elemental sulphur. More importantly, the archaeon is an obligate
heterotroph capable of fermenting a variety of organic compounds such as
peptides, amino acids, and sugars in the absence of sulphur. This work sought
to provide fundamental information about the genetic repertoire of T.
kodakarensis KOD1 by parsing its annotated genome sequence downloaded from
Genbank. Comprising gene name, gene function, and gene sequence, the database
should find use in a variety of fundamental and applied biology workflows such
as profiling useful enzymes from the archaeon, as well as cloning candidate
genes into other expression hosts.