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MitoZoa 2.0: A database resource and search tools for comparative and evolutionary analyses of mitochondrial genomes in Metazoa
- Source :
- Nucleic Acids Research
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press, 2012.
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Abstract
- The MITOchondrial genome database of metaZOAns (MitoZoa) is a public resource for comparative analyses of metazoan mitochondrial genomes (mtDNA) at both the sequence and genomic organizational levels. The main characteristics of the MitoZoa database are the careful revision of mtDNA entry annotations and the possibility of retrieving gene order and non-coding region (NCR) data in appropriate formats. The MitoZoa retrieval system enables basic and complex queries at various taxonomic levels using different search menus. MitoZoa 2.0 has been enhanced in several aspects, including: a re-annotation pipeline to check the correctness of protein-coding gene predictions; a standardized annotation of introns and of precursor ORFs whose functionality is post-transcriptionally recovered by RNA editing or programmed translational frameshifting; updates of taxon-related fields and a BLAST sequence similarity search tool. Database novelties and the definition of standard mtDNA annotation rules, together with the user-friendly retrieval system and the BLAST service, make MitoZoa a valuable resource for comparative and evolutionary analyses as well as a reference database to assist in the annotation of novel mtDNA sequences. MitoZoa is freely accessible at http://www.caspur.it/mitozoa. © The Author(s) 2011. Published by Oxford University Press.
- Subjects :
- Mitochondrial DNA
Intron
Biology
computer.software_genre
Genome
DNA, Mitochondrial
Mitochondrial Proteins
Evolution, Molecular
Annotation
Genetics
Mitochondrial Protein
Taxonomic rank
Translational frameshift
Database
Frameshifting, Ribosomal
Molecular Sequence Annotation
Articles
Introns
Genes, Mitochondrial
RNA editing
Genome, Mitochondrial
Databases, Nucleic Acid
computer
Software
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nucleic Acids Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....831f6a0f4603389a5b544fb84ce0da60