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Authors

Affiliation

¹Distributed Information Sub-Centre, A. M. U. Aligarh - 202002, India; ²Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, A. M. U. Aligarh - 202002, India

Email

asad.k@rediffmail.com; *Corresponding author

Phone

+91 571 2723088

Fax

+91 571 2721776

Article Type

Database

Date

Received September 22, 2011; Accepted September 23, 2011; Published September 28, 2011

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1, also known as "bird flu” has been documented to cause an outbreak of respiratory diseases in humans. The unprecedented spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza type A is a threat to veterinary and human health. The BFluenza is a relational database which is solely devoted to proteomic information of H5N1 subtype. Bfluenza has novel features including computed physico-chemical properties data of H5N1 viral proteins, modeled structures of viral proteins, data of protein coordinates, experimental details, molecular description and bibliographic reference. The database also contains nucleotide and their decoded protein sequences data. The database can be searched in various modes by setting search options. The structure of viral protein could be visualized by JMol viewer or by Discovery Studio.

Keywords

Bird flu, H5N1, hemagglutinin (HA), neuraminidase (NA), matrix protein M1, ion-channel M2.

Availability

http://www.bfluenza.info

Citation

Salahuddin & Khan. Bioinformation 7(3): 147-151 (2011)
 

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.