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AphidBase: a centralized bioinformatic resource for annotation of the pea aphid genome
Author(s) -
Legeai F.,
Shigenobu S.,
Gauthier J.P.,
Colbourne J.,
Rispe C.,
Collin O.,
Richards S.,
Wilson A. C. C.,
Murphy T.,
Tagu D.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
insect molecular biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.955
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1365-2583
pISSN - 0962-1075
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2583.2009.00930.x
Subject(s) - annotation , genome , biology , genomics , resource (disambiguation) , computational biology , software , aphid , gene annotation , genome project , world wide web , gene , computer science , genetics , botany , computer network , programming language
AphidBase is a centralized bioinformatic resource that was developed to facilitate community annotation of the pea aphid genome by the International Aphid Genomics Consortium (IAGC). The AphidBase Information System designed to organize and distribute genomic data and annotations for a large international community was constructed using open source software tools from the Generic Model Organism Database (GMOD). The system includes Apollo and GBrowse utilities as well as a wiki, blast search capabilities and a full text search engine. AphidBase strongly supported community cooperation and coordination in the curation of gene models during community annotation of the pea aphid genome. AphidBase can be accessed at http://www.aphidbase.com.