1. VectorBase: a data resource for invertebrate vector genomics
- Author
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William M. Gelbart, Fotis C. Kafatos, Robert V. Bruggner, Peter W. Atkinson, Ryan Butler, Nora J. Besansky, Karyn Megy, Scott Christley, Frank H. Collins, Peter Arensburger, Jason M. Meyer, Daniel Lawson, George K. Christophides, Robert M. MacCallum, Nathan Konopinski, Pantelis Topalis, Martin Hammond, Catherine A. Hill, Gregory R. Madey, Emmanuel Dialynas, Kathryn S. Campbell, Eric O. Stinson, David W. Severson, Christos Louis, Neil F. Lobo, Seth Redmond, and Ewan Birney
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Anopheles gambiae ,030231 tropical medicine ,Genome, Insect ,Genomics ,Computational biology ,Pediculus humanus ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Aedes ,parasitic diseases ,Anopheles ,Databases, Genetic ,Genetics ,Animals ,030304 developmental biology ,0303 health sciences ,biology ,Ixodes ,Ecology ,Gene Expression Profiling ,Arthropod Vectors ,Pediculus ,Articles ,biology.organism_classification ,3. Good health ,Culex ,Culicidae ,Vocabulary, Controlled ,Ixodes scapularis ,Vector (epidemiology) ,Arthropod Vector - Abstract
VectorBase (http://www.vectorbase.org) is an NIAID-funded Bioinformatic Resource Center focused on invertebrate vectors of human pathogens. VectorBase annotates and curates vector genomes providing a web accessible integrated resource for the research community. Currently, VectorBase contains genome information for three mosquito species: Aedes aegypti, Anopheles gambiae and Culex quinquefasciatus, a body louse Pediculus humanus and a tick species Ixodes scapularis. Since our last report VectorBase has initiated a community annotation system, a microarray and gene expression repository and controlled vocabularies for anatomy and insecticide resistance. We have continued to develop both the software infrastructure and tools for interrogating the stored data.
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- 2008