CoVDB -- CoronaVirus DataBase
What you can do:
A comprehensive database for comparative analysis of coronavirus genes and genomes.
Highlights:
- The recent SARS epidemic has boosted interest in the discovery of novel human and animal coronaviruses.
- By July 2007, more than 3000 coronavirus sequence records, including 264 complete genomes, are available in GenBank.
- The number of coronavirus species with complete genomes available has increased from 9 in 2003 to 25 in 2007, of which six, including coronavirus HKU1, bat SARS coronavirus, group 1 bat coronavirus HKU2, groups 2c and 2d coronaviruses, were sequenced by our laboratory.
- CoVDB provides a convenient platform for rapid and accurate batch sequence retrieval, the cornerstone and bottleneck for comparative gene or genome analysis.
- Sequences can be directly downloaded from the website in FASTA format.
- CoVDB also provides detailed annotation of all coronavirus sequences using a standardized nomenclature system, and overcomes the problems of duplicated and identical sequences in other databases.
- For complete genomes, a single representative sequence for each species is available for comparative analysis such as phylogenetic studies.
- With the annotated sequences in CoVDB, more specific blast search results can be generated for efficient downstream analysis.
Keywords:
- Coronavirus
- Viral Genes
- Viral Genome
- Viral Proteins
- SARS
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This record last updated: 04-17-2008