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.