Title

Authors

Affiliation

National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, Canal Ring Road, P.O - Dilkusha, Lucknow-226002, India.

Email

usarkar1 @rediffmail.com; *Corresponding author

Article Type

Database

Date

Received May 10, 2012; Accepted May 11, 2012; Published May 31, 2012

DNA barcode is a new tool for taxon recognition and classification of biological organisms based on sequence of a fragment of mitochondrial gene, cytochrome c oxidase I (COI). In view of the growing importance of the fish DNA barcoding for species identification, molecular taxonomy and fish diversity conservation, we developed a Fish Barcode Information System (FBIS) for Indian fishes, which will serve as a regional DNA barcode archival and analysis system. The database presently contains 2334 sequence records of COI gene for 472 aquatic species belonging to 39 orders and 136 families, collected from available published data sources. Additionally, it contains information on phenotype, distribution and IUCN Red List status of fishes. The web version of FBIS was designed using MySQL, Perl and PHP under Linux operating platform to (a) store and manage the acquisition (b) analyze and explore DNA barcode records (c) identify species and estimate genetic divergence. FBIS has also been integrated with appropriate tools for retrieving and viewing information about the database statistics and taxonomy. It is expected that FBIS would be useful as a potent information system in fish molecular taxonomy, phylogeny and genomics.

Availability

http://mail.nbfgr.res.in/fbis/

Keywords

Genetic Divergence, Fish, LAMP, Phylogeny, Phylogeography, Taxonomy

Citation

Nagpure et al. Bioinformation 8(10): 483-488 (2012)

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.