Title

Authors

Affiliation

Department of Bacteriology, Tuberculosis Research Centre (Indian Council of Medical Research), Mayor VR Ramanathan road, Chetput, Chennai - 600 031, India

Email

vanajakumar@trcchennai.in; *Corresponding author

Phone

+91-44-28369659

Fax

+91-44-2836 2528

Article Type

Database

Date

Received November 12, 2010; Accepted January 06, 2011; Published August 02, 2011

Mycobacteriophage genome database (MGDB) is an exclusive repository of the 64 completely sequenced mycobacteriophages with annotated information. It is a comprehensive compilation of the various gene parameters captured from several databases pooled together to empower mycobacteriophage researchers. The MGDB (Version No.1.0) comprises of 6086 genes from 64 mycobacteriophages classified into 72 families based on ACLAME database. Manual curation was aided by information available from public databases which was enriched further by analysis. Its web interface allows browsing as well as querying the classification. The main objective is to collect and organize the complexity inherent to mycobacteriophage protein classification in a rational way. The other objective is to browse the existing and new genomes and describe their functional annotation.

Availability

http://mpgdb.ibioinformatics.org/mpgdb.php

Keywords

Mycobacteriophages, genome, annotation, database, MySQL, PHP

Citation

Joseph et al. Bioinformation 6(10): 393-394 (2011)
 

Edited by

W Cuff

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.