InSatDb: a microsatellite database of fully sequenced insect genomes

Nucleic Acids Res. 2007 Jan;35(Database issue):D36-9. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkl778. Epub 2006 Nov 1.

Abstract

InSatDb presents an interactive interface to query information regarding microsatellite characteristics per se of five fully sequenced insect genomes (fruit-fly, honeybee, malarial mosquito, red-flour beetle and silkworm). InSatDb allows users to obtain microsatellites annotated with size (in base pairs and repeat units); genomic location (exon, intron, up-stream or transposon); nature (perfect or imperfect); and sequence composition (repeat motif and GC%). One can access microsatellite cluster (compound repeats) information and a list of microsatellites with conserved flanking sequences (microsatellite family or paralogs). InSatDb is complete with the insects information, web links to find details, methodology and a tutorial. A separate 'Analysis' section illustrates the comparative genomic analysis that can be carried out using the output. InSatDb is available at www.cdfd.org.in/insatdb.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Anopheles / genetics
  • Bees / genetics
  • Bombyx / genetics
  • Databases, Nucleic Acid*
  • Drosophila melanogaster / genetics
  • Genome, Insect*
  • Genomics
  • Internet
  • Microsatellite Repeats*
  • Tribolium / genetics
  • User-Computer Interface