VMD: Viral Microsatellite Database-A Comprehensive
Resource for all Viral Microsatellites |
Suresh B. Mudunuri 1*, Allam Appa Rao 2, S Pallamsetty 3,
Priyatosh Mishra 1 and H.A.Nagarajaram 4 |
1Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Aditya Engineering College , Surampalem, E.G.Dist, Andhra Pradesh -533437, India |
2Vice-Chancellor , Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada, E.G.Dist, Andhra Pradesh - 533003, India |
3Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering , Andhra University College of Engineering (AUCE),
Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh - 530003, India |
4Laboratory of Computational Biology , Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD),
Nampally, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh – 500001, India |
| *Corresponding author: |
Dr. Suresh B. Mudunuri,
Department of Computer
Science and Engineering,
Aditya Engineering College, Surampalem,
E.G.Dist, Andhra Pradesh -533437, India,
Tel : 55-16-36024532 / 36024538,
E-mail : sureshverma@gmail.com |
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Received December 05, 2009; Accepted December 19, 2009; Published
December 21, 2009 |
Citation:
Mudunuri SB, Rao AA, Pal lamsetty S, Mishra P and Nagarajaram HA (2009) VMD: Viral Microsatellite Database-A Comprehensive
Resource for all Viral Microsatellites. J Comput Sci Syst Biol 2: 283-286. doi:10.4172/jcsb.1000043 |
Copyright: © 2009 Mudunuri SB. This is an open-access article distributed
under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License,which
permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,
provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Abstract |
| Microsatellites are the small DNA sequences with a tandem
repetition of a particular motif of size 1-6.
Microsatellites are found in all known genomes and play
a significant role in many fields including DNA Fingerprinting,
Population Studies, Forensics, Paternity Studies,
Gene Regulation, Genetic Disorder Studies, and Evolution
of Genomes. They are extensively used as genetic
markers for identifying pathogenic bacteria and viruses.
More over, they are found to be associated with the plasticity,
adaptation and virulence of bacteria and viruses.
Insilico analysis of microsatellites in various viruses would
reveal many interesting facts about their evolution and
adaptation. To the best of our knowledge, there is no comprehensive
and exclusive database of all viral
microsatellites that extracts all types of microsatellites with
flexible extraction options. In this paper, we describe the
details of a relational database named Viral Microsatellite
Database (VMD). VMD currently hosts microsatellites
of around 3500 viral genomes along with their alignments,
locus information, imperfection info, protein info etc. The
database can be accessed and downloaded for free for
academic / research purposes from http://www.mcr.org.in/vmd. |
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