Title

Authors

Affiliation

¹Department of Biotechnology, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, A-10, Sector 62, Noida- 201307, India; ²Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science & Technology, New Delhi-110003, India.

Email

ckj522@yahoo.com; *Corresponding author

Article Type

Database

Date

Received May 11, 2012; Revised December 01, 2012; Accepted December 04, 2012; Published December 19, 2012

Members of Streptomyces produce 70% of natural bioactive products. There is considerable amount of information available based on polyphasic approach for classification of Streptomyces. However, this information based on phenotypic, genotypic and bioactive component production profiles is crucial for pharmacological screening programmes. This is scattered across various journals, books and other resources, many of which are not freely accessible. The designed database incorporates polyphasic typing information using combinations of search options to aid in efficient screening of new isolates. This will help in the preliminary categorization of appropriate groups. It is a free relational database compatible with existing operating systems. A cross platform technology with XAMPP Web server has been used to develop, manage, and facilitate the user query effectively with database support. Employment of PHP, a platform-independent scripting language, embedded in HTML and the database management software MySQL will facilitate dynamic information storage and retrieval. The user-friendly, open and flexible freeware (PHP, MySQL and Apache) is foreseen to reduce running and maintenance cost.

Availability

www.sis.biowaves.org

Keywords

Streptomyces, PHP, MySQL, Literature, Molecular

Citation

Jain et al. Bioinformation 8(25): 1283-1285 (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.