Welcome to Canto
Canto is an online annotation tool which has been developed to allow researchers to curate the genetic and molecular data from their publications for inclusion in public biological databases. Originally created for the fission yeast community, Canto is a generic tool that can be readily configured for use with other organisms and other databases. Questions? Contact the Canto team...

Canto in Use
Canto is currently deployed for:- Visit... Schizosaccharomyces pombe (fission yeast) at PomBase. Curate GO, phenotypes, interactions, protein modifications for inclusion in PomBase
- Visit ... In collaboration with Rothamsted Research (PHI-base), we have extended Canto to enable the curation of multiple strains in a single Canto instance, and to curate pathogen-host interaction (multispecies) phenotypes and genotypes.
- FlyBase uses a Canto instance extended and configured to support Drosophila phenotype and genetic interaction annotation
- Visit... We have implemented Canto to support community curation of the emerging model Schizosaccharomyces japonicus
- SEA-PHAGES use Canto as part of a discovery-based undergraduate research course (Ivan Erril, UMBC)
- Visit... Generic Gene Ontology Implementation: Curate GO annotations for proteins, using UniProtKB identifiers
- Visit... Komagataella pastoris (formerly known as Pichia pastoris)
Documentation
View...Instructions for using Canto are available from the documentation pages, or via the "Help" link at the top right of every Canto instance
Demo
Demo...Try the demo version of Canto: curate GO, phenotypes, interactions and protein modifications
How to Cite Canto
Please cite: Rutherford KM, Harris MA, Lock A, Oliver SG, Wood V.
Canto: An online tool for community literature
curation. Bioinformatics (2014) doi:
10.1093/bioinformatics/btu103 PMID:24574118
Get The Code
Visit...Canto is a free, open source application. The source code is available from Github.
There is documentation for local installation and administration.
Canto is a component of
Acknowledgements
Canto is developed as part of the PomBase project, which provides a model organism database for the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. PomBase is funded by the Wellcome Trust, run by a consortium comprising the University of Cambridge and University College London, and hosted by the Babraham Institute.