Title

Intergenics: A tool for extraction of intergenic regions

Authors

Kavitha Kurup*, Sujitha Mary, Ziauddin Ahamed Rafi

Affiliation

Centre of excellence in Bioinformatics, School of Biotechnology, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai 625 021, Tamil Nadu, India

E-mail*

kavitha@mkustrbioinfo.com * Corresponding author

Phone

+91 452 2459141;

Article Type

Database

Date

Received July 26, 2010; Accepted August 26, 2010; Published September 20, 2010

For the past one decade, there has been considerable explosion of interest in searching novel regulatory elements in the intergenic region between the protein coding regions. The microbial genomes are the most exploited in terms of intergenic (noncoding) regions due to its less complexity. We think, the increasing pace of genome sequencing calls for a tool which will be useful for the extraction of intergenic regions. IntergenicS (Intergenic Sequence) is a tool which can extract the intergenic regions of microbial genomes at NCBI. All the unannotated regions between annotated protein coding genes and noncoding RNA genes can be extracted. It also deals with the calculation of GC base composition of the intergenic regions. This will be a useful tool for the analysis of noncoding regions of both bacterial and archael genomes.

Keywords

intergenics, extraction, tool, RNA, GC content.

Citation

Kurup et al. Bioinformation 5(3): 83-84 (2010)

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.