Tan, Shi Yang and Dutta, Avirup and Jakubovics, Nicholas S. and Ang, Mia Yang and Siow, Cheuk Chuen and Mutha, Naresh V.R. and Heydari, Hamed and Wee, Wei Yee and Wong, Guat Jah and Choo, Siew Woh (2015) YersiniaBase: a genomic resource and analysis platform for comparative analysis of Yersinia. BMC Bioinformatics, 16 (1). p. 9. ISSN 1471-2105, DOI https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-014-0422-y.
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Background: Yersinia is a Gram-negative bacteria that includes serious pathogens such as the Yersinia pestis, which causes plague, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, Yersinia enterocolitica. The remaining species are generally considered non-pathogenic to humans, although there is evidence that at least some of these species can cause occasional infections using distinct mechanisms from the more pathogenic species. With the advances in sequencing technologies, many genomes of Yersinia have been sequenced. However, there is currently no specialized platform to hold the rapidly-growing Yersinia genomic data and to provide analysis tools particularly for comparative analyses, which are required to provide improved insights into their biology, evolution and pathogenicity. Description: To facilitate the ongoing and future research of Yersinia, especially those generally considered non-pathogenic species, a well-defined repository and analysis platform is needed to hold the Yersinia genomic data and analysis tools for the Yersinia research community. Hence, we have developed the YersiniaBase, a robust and user-friendly Yersinia resource and analysis platform for the analysis of Yersinia genomic data. YersiniaBase has a total of twelve species and 232 genome sequences, of which the majority are Yersinia pestis. In order to smooth the process of searching genomic data in a large database, we implemented an Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)-based real-time searching system in YersiniaBase. Besides incorporating existing tools, which include JavaScript-based genome browser (JBrowse) and Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST), YersiniaBase also has in-house developed tools: (1) Pairwise Genome Comparison tool (PGC) for comparing two user-selected genomes; (2) Pathogenomics Profiling Tool (PathoProT) for comparative pathogenomics analysis of Yersinia genomes; (3) YersiniaTree for constructing phylogenetic tree of Yersinia. We ran analyses based on the tools and genomic data in YersiniaBase and the preliminary results showed differences in virulence genes found in Yersinia pestis and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis compared to other Yersinia species, and differences between Yersinia enterocolitica subsp. enterocolitica and Yersinia enterocolitica subsp. palearctica. Conclusions: YersiniaBase offers free access to wide range of genomic data and analysis tools for the analysis of Yersinia. YersiniaBase can be accessed at http://yersinia.um.edu.my.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | University of Malaya and Ministry of Education (MOHE), Malaysia under the High Impact Research (HIR) Grant UM.C/HIR/MOHE/08and UM Research Grant (UMRG) [Account No. UMRG: RG541-13HTM] |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | YersiniaBase; Yersinia; Genomic resources; Comparative analysis |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science R Medicine > RK Dentistry |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Dentistry |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Oct 2018 05:15 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Oct 2018 05:15 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/19612 |
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