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Cry-Bt identifier: A biological database for PCR detection of Cry genes present in transgenic plants

 

Authors

 

Vinay Kumar Singh, Sonu Ambwani, Soma Marla*, Anil Kumar

 

Affiliation

 

Bioinformatics Centre, Molecular Biology & Genetic Engineering, CBS&H, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand.263145, India

 

Email

 

ssmarl@yahoo.com

 

Article Type

 

database

 

Date

 

Received June 14, 2009; Revised August 01, 2009; Accepted September 11, 2009; Published October 23, 2009

 

Abstract

We describe the development of a user friendly tool that would assist in the retrieval of information relating to Cry genes in transgenic crops. The tool also helps in detection of transformed Cry genes from Bacillus thuringiensis present in transgenic plants by providing suitable designed primers for PCR identification of these genes. The tool designed based on relational database model enables easy retrieval of information from the database with simple user queries. The tool also enables users to access related information about Cry genes present in various databases by interacting with different sources (nucleotide sequences, protein sequence, sequence comparison tools, published literature, conserved domains, evolutionary and structural data).

 

Keywords

HTML, PERL, PHP, Access, MySQL, rice, Cry-Bt

 

Availability

http://insilicogenomics.in/Cry-btIdentifier/welcome.html

 

Citation

 

Singh et al., Bioinformation 4(5):  182-183 (2009)

 

Edited by

 

P. Kangueane

 

ISSN

 

0973-2063

 

Publisher

 

Biomedical Informatics

Copyright

 

Publisher

 

Copyright Transfer Agreement

 

The authors of published articles in Bioinformation automatically transfer the copyright to the publisher upon formal acceptance. However, the authors reserve right to use the information contained in the article for non commercial purposes.

 

License

 

 

This is an open-access article, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author and source are credited.