Łukasz F. SobalaPlease use the format "First name initials family name" as in "Marie S. Curie, Niels H. D. Bohr, Albert Einstein, John R. R. Tolkien, Donna T. Strickland"
<p>The origins and early evolution of animals is a subject with many outstanding questions. One problem faced by researchers trying to answer them is the absence of a comprehensive database of sequences from non-bilaterians. Publicly available data is plentiful but scattered and often not associated with proper metadata. A new database presented in this paper, LukProt, is an attempt at solving this issue. The database contains protein sequences obtained mostly from genomic, transcriptomic and metagenomic studies and is an extension of EukProt (a collection of eukaryotic sequences from all known clades). LukProt adopts and extends EukProt naming conventions and includes data from 216 additional animals. The database is associated with a taxogroup scheme suitable for studying early animal evolution. Minor updates to the database will contain species additions or metadata corrections and major updates will synchronize LukProt to each new version of EukProt. All public LukProt releases are permanently stored on Zenodo. A BLAST server to search the database is available at <a href="https://lukprot.hirszfeld.pl/">https://lukprot.hirszfeld.pl/</a>. The community is invited to participate in maintaining and correcting LukProt. As it can be searched without downloading locally, the database can be a convenient resource not only for evolutionary biologists, but the broader scientific community as well.</p>
EukProt, LukProt, database, evolution, animals, Metazoa, eukaryote, proteome, dataset