Title

An Integrated Molecular Database on Indian Insects

Authors

Maria Pratheepa^1*, Thiruvengadam Venkatesan¹, Gandhi Gracy¹, Sushil Kumar Jalali¹, Rajagopal Rangheswaran¹, Jomin Cruz Antony², Anil Rai³

Affiliation

¹ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, H.A. Farm Post, P.Bag No: 2491, Bellary Road, Hebbal, Bengaluru – 560 024. India;

²Department of Computer Science, Jain University, Bengaluru – 560 027, India;

³ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistical, Research Institute, New Delhi – 110 012, India;

E-mail

mpratheepa@gmail.com;

Article Type

Database

Date

Received December 26, 2017; Revised January 23, 2018; Accepted January 24, 2018; Published February 28, 2018

MOlecular Database on Indian Insects (MODII) is an online database linking several databases like Insect Pest Info, Insect Barcode Information System (IBIn), Insect Whole Genome sequence, Other Genomic Resources of National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources (NBAIR), Whole Genome sequencing of Honey bee viruses, Insecticide resistance gene database and Genomic tools. This database was developed with a holistic approach for collecting information about phenomic and genomic information of agriculturally important insects. This insect resource database is available online for free at http://cib.res.in.

Keywords:

molecular database; insect; agriculture

Citation

Pratheepa et al. Bioinformation 14(2): 42-47 (2018)

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.