Gene database for Escherichia coli K-12

Commensal in the gut, the Gram-negative rod-shaped Escherichia coli is perhaps the most familiar of the common bacteria that people knows about. Indeed, from a pathogen involved in food poisoning to a biotechnology workhorse producing useful products, the facultative anaerobic E. coli bacterium has received intense research scrutiny into varied aspects of its metabolism and genetic repertoire. Used as a model organism for understanding fundamental biological questions and a microbial chassis for biotechnology purposes, E. coli continues to withhold secrets important to furthering our understanding of biology or developing better biotechnology platforms. This work reports the gene database of E. coli K-12 obtained through parsing the annotated genome sequence of the bacterium from Genbank. Comprising gene name, gene function descriptor, and gene sequence, the gene database of E. coli K-12 should find use in a variety of molecular cloning and genome editing workflows seeking to understand functional genomics or to exploit the rich genetic repertoire of the organism for biotechnology purposes.