ButterflyBase -- a platform for lepidopteran genomics
What you can do:
Search a unified resource for lepidopteran genomics.
Highlights:
- With over 100 000 species and a large community of evolutionary biologists, population ecologists, pest biologists and genome researchers, the Lepidoptera are an important insect group.
- Genomic resources [expressed sequence tags (ESTs), genome sequence, genetic and physical maps, proteomic and microarray datasets] are growing, but there has up to now been no single access and analysis portal for this group.
- A total of 273 077 ESTs from more than 30 different species have been clustered to generate stable unigene sets, and robust protein translations derived from each unigene cluster.
- Clusters and their protein translations are annotated with BLAST-based similarity, gene ontology (GO), enzyme classification (EC) and Kyoto encyclopaedia of genes and genomes (KEGG) terms, and are also searchable using similarity tools such as BLAST and MS-BLAST.
- The database supports many needs of the lepidopteran research community, including molecular marker development, orthologue prediction for deep phylogenetics, and detection of rapidly evolving proteins likely involved in host-pathogen or other evolutionary processes.
- ButterflyBase is expanding to include additional genomic sequence, ecological and mapping data for key species.
Keywords:
- Chromosome Mapping
- Insect Genome
- Insect Proteins
- Lepidoptera
- butterfly
Literature & Tutorials:
PubMed Link: ButterflyBase: a platform for lepidopteran genomics
This record last updated: 04-17-2008