<![CDATA[BOL: DEG 5.0: a database of essential genes in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes]]> https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/43013/deg-50-a-database-of-essential-genes-in-both-prokaryotes-and-eukaryotes? https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/43013/deg-50-a-database-of-essential-genes-in-both-prokaryotes-and-eukaryotes Tue, 30 Mar 2021 11:47:29 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/bookmarks/view/43013/deg-50-a-database-of-essential-genes-in-both-prokaryotes-and-eukaryotes <![CDATA[DEG 5.0: a database of essential genes in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes]]> Essential genes are those indispensable for the survival of an organism, and their functions are therefore considered a foundation of life. Determination of a minimal gene set needed to sustain a life form, a fundamental question in biology, plays a key role in the emerging field, synthetic biology.

DEG is freely available at the website http://tubic.tju.edu.cn/deg or http://www.essentialgene.org.

Address of the bookmark: http://www.essentialgene.org/

]]> Rahul Nayak