VRprofile: gene‐cluster‐detection‐based profiling of virulence and antibiotic resistance traits encoded within genome sequences of pathogenic bacteria

&NA; VRprofile is a Web server that facilitates rapid investigation of virulence and antibiotic resistance genes, as well as extends these trait transfer‐related genetic contexts, in newly sequenced pathogenic bacterial genomes. The used backend database MobilomeDB was firstly built on sets of known gene cluster loci of bacterial type III/IV/VI/VII secretion systems and mobile genetic elements, including integrative and conjugative elements, prophages, class I integrons, IS elements and pathogenicity/antibiotic resistance islands. VRprofile is thus able to co‐localize the homologs of these conserved gene clusters using HMMer or BLASTp searches. With the integration of the homologous gene cluster search module with a sequence composition module, VRprofile has exhibited better performance for island‐like region predictions than the other widely used methods. In addition, VRprofile also provides an integrated Web interface for aligning and visualizing identified gene clusters with MobilomeDB‐archived gene clusters, or a variety set of bacterial genomes. VRprofile might contribute to meet the increasing demands of re‐annotations of bacterial variable regions, and aid in the real‐time definitions of disease‐relevant gene clusters in pathogenic bacteria of interest. VRprofile is freely available at http://bioinfo‐mml.sjtu.edu.cn/VRprofile.

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