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CHIKVPRO – a protein sequence annotation database for chikungunya virus |
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Akaash Kumar Mishra, Chakresh Kumar Jain, Apurva Agrawal, Saransh Jain Kumar Sambhav Jain, Namrata Dudha, Kapila Kumar, Sanjeev K. Sharma , Sanjay Gupta*
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Affiliation |
Department of Biotechnology, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, NOIDA 201307, India |
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Database |
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Date |
Received February 21, 2010; accepted April 06, 2009; published June 15, 2010
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Abstract |
In the recent past, there has been a resurgence of interest in Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) attributed to massive outbreaks of Chikungunya fever in the South-East Asia Region. This has reflected in substantial increase in submission of CHIKV genome sequences to NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) database. Hereby we submit a database “CHIKVPRO” containing structural and functional annotation of Chikungunya virus proteins (25 strains) submitted in the NCBI repository. The CHIKV genome encodes for 9 proteins: 4 non-structural and 5 structural. The CHIKVPRO database aims to provide the virology community with a single accession authoritative resource for CHIKV proteome- with reference to physiochemical and molecular properties, proteolytic cleavage sites, hydrophobicity, transmembrane prediction, and classification into functional families using SVM-Prot and other Expasy tools.
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Availability |
The database is freely available at http://www.chikvpro.info/ |
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Keywords
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CHIKVPRO, Chikungunya virus, CHIKV, database, protein sequence |
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Citation |
Mishra et al. Bioinformation 5(1): 4-6 (2010) |
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Edited by |
P. Kangueane
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0973-2063
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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. |