MICdb -- A database of prokaryotic microsatellites
What you can do:
Search for non-redundant microsatellites extracted from fully sequenced prokaryotic genomes.
Highlights:
- The current version (2.0, 2004) compiles from 287 viral genomes as well as 129 prokaryotic genomes belonging to different phylogenetic groups and is loaded with tools and textual information so as to provide insights into structural and functional aspects of microsatellites.
- The database contains the following information pertaining to the microsatellites: The regions (coding/non-coding) containing microsatellite tracts, the frequencies of their occurrences, the size and the number of repeating motifs and the sequences of the tracts.
- Protein coding regions after translation are annotated with secondary structural information and positions of microsatellite tracts are shown in order to provide an insight into the possible structural changes due to microsatellite polymorphism.
- In the case of microsatellites occurring in the non-coding regions graphical illustrations are provided to show relative position of the microsatellite tracts with respect to the upstream and downstream coding regions.
- An interface to Autoprimer, a primer design program, has been provided to every microsatellite tract to compute suitable primers for PCR.
Keywords:
- microsatellites
- prokaryotic microsatellites
- microsatellite polymorphisms
- microsatellite PCR primers
- viral genomes
- prokaryotic genomes
Literature & Tutorials:
PubMed Link: MICdb
This record last updated: 05-03-2005