VectorBase

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VectorBase [1][2] is one of the five Bioinformatics Resource Centers (BRC) funded by the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIAID a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. VectorBase is focused on invertebrate vectors of human pathogens working with the sequencing centers and the research community to curate vector genomes (mainly genome annotation).

Genomes covered in the VectorBase database

Tools available through the VectorBase site

  • Genome browser
  • Community annotation system
  • Microarray and gene expression repository
  • Controlled vocabularies for anatomy[5] and insecticide resistance
  • BLAST searches for all covered genomes

See also

References

  1. Lawson, D; Arensburger, P; Atkinson, P; Besansky, NJ; Bruggner, RV; Butler, R; Campbell, KS; Christophides, GK et al. (2007). "VectorBase: a home for invertebrate vectors of human pathogens". Nucleic Acids Research 35 (Database issue): D503–5. doi:10.1093/nar/gkl960. PMC 1751530. PMID 17145709. 
  2. Lawson, D; Arensburger, P; Atkinson, P; Besansky, NJ; Bruggner, RV; Butler, R; Campbell, KS; Christophides, GK et al. (2009). "VectorBase: a data resource for invertebrate vector genomics". Nucleic Acids Research 37 (Database issue): D583–7. doi:10.1093/nar/gkn857. PMC 2686483. PMID 19028744. 
  3. Nene, V; Wortman, JR; Lawson, D; Haas, B; Kodira, C; Tu, ZJ; Loftus, B; Xi, Z et al. (2007). "Genome sequence of Aedes aegypti, a major arbovirus vector". Science 316 (5832): 1718–23. Bibcode:2007Sci...316.1718N. doi:10.1126/science.1138878. PMC 2868357. PMID 17510324. 
  4. Holt, RA; Subramanian, GM; Halpern, A; Sutton, GG; Charlab, R; Nusskern, DR; Wincker, P; Clark, AG et al. (2002). "The genome sequence of the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae". Science 298 (5591): 129–49. Bibcode:2002Sci...298..129H. doi:10.1126/science.1076181. PMID 12364791. 
  5. Topalis, P; Tzavlaki, C; Vestaki, K; Dialynas, E; Sonenshine, DE; Butler, R; Bruggner, RV; Stinson, EO et al. (2008). "Anatomical ontologies of mosquitoes and ticks, and their web browsers in VectorBase". Insect molecular biology 17 (1): 87–9. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2583.2008.00781.x. PMID 18237287. 

External links

VectorBase genome browsers
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