Title

MAP MUTATION: a program for analyzing mutations in protein sequences

Authors

Tamanna Anwar ¹ and Asad U Khan ^1,2*

Affiliation

¹Distribution Information Sub Centre, ²Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202002 India.

E-mail*

huzzi99@hotmail.com; * Corresponding author

Phone

091-571-2723088

Fax

091-571-2721776

Article Type

Software

Date

received February 08 2006; accepted February 12 2006; published online February 20, 2006

Avian influenza is an infectious disease of birds caused by type-A strains of the influenza virus. The unprecedented spread of the highly pathogenic avian influenza type A is a threat to veterinary and human health. Influenza viruses continuously undergo mutations and they lack proofreading mechanism. Hence, they evolve to new forms of the virus. We describe MAP MUTATION (developed using PERL script) to quickly compare two strains and display mutational information and report specific positions where mutation has occurred.

Availability

The PERL script is available from the authors for non-commercial purposes.

Keywords

sequence; mutation; virus; PERL script; analysis

Citation

Anwar & Khan, Bioinformation 1(3): 92-93 (2006)

Edited by

P. Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.