GyDB Gypsy Database 2.0

The GyDB project pursues the fascinating goal of analyzing and classifying the non-redundant diversity of mobile genetic elements in the context of the tree of life and based on their evolutionary profiles. The emergence and subsequent role played by viruses and mobile genetic elements in the history of life is an unclear yet exciting object of investigation, where researchers try to discern relevant aspects of the molecular changes responsible for various characteristics in the biological organisms related with horizontal transfer, infection and disease.