FunGeneDB was designed to facilitate the molecular identification of Polyporales, based on Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS). FunGeneDB combines a curated DNA database extracted from GenBank with symilarity search tool BLASTn program
Today (april 2012), the database contains 3358 candidate sequences, represented 131 genus and 518 species of Polyporales fungi.
Only 2468 sequences were accepted (27 % rejected), represented 121 genus and 443 species.
There are 405 reference sequences (fully identified ITS sequences for which a voucher, strain or specimen, has been deposited in a public-access collection) of Polyporales order, representative of 118 genus and 397 species
The FunGene classification reposed to The Dictionnary of the Fungi (currently 10th edition, 2008) published by CABI Publishing
The Dictionnary of the Fungi contains the current consensus on the fungal taxonomic hierarchy from the rank of Kingdom.