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Development and public release of a comprehensive hepatitis virus database
Author(s) -
Shini Tadasu,
Tanaka Yasuhito,
Tateno Yoshio,
Mizokami Masashi
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
hepatology research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.123
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1872-034X
pISSN - 1386-6346
DOI - 10.1111/j.1872-034x.2007.00262.x
Subject(s) - genbank , phylogenetic tree , database , genome , virus , hepatitis c virus , biology , annotation , hepatitis e virus , virology , sequence database , genetics , gene , genotype , computer science
Currently, approximately 44 000 hepatitis C virus (HCV), 11 000 hepatitis B virus (HBV), and 1600 hepatitis E virus (HEV) sequences are available at the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC, previously known as DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank), and the number of these virus sequences is growing rapidly. However, since INDSC is not specialized to hepatitis viruses, it is difficult to retrieve information of virological or clinical interests from it. Thus, it is quite worthwhile to construct a specialized database for the hepatitis virus sequences and to make it accessible to researchers worldwide.