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.