Yusim Karina, Richardson Russell, Tao Ning, Dalwani Anita, Agrawal Ashish, Szinger James, Funkhouser Robert, Korber Bette, Kuiken Carla
Theoretical Biology and Biophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.
Appl Bioinformatics. 2005;4(4):217-25. doi: 10.2165/00822942-200504040-00002.
The Los Alamos Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Sequence Database (http://hcv.lanl.gov or http://hcv-db.org) was officially launched in September 2003. The sister HCV Immunology Database was made public in September 2004. The HCV Immunology Database is based on the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Immunology Database. The HCV Immunology Database contains a curated inventory of immunological epitopes in HCV and their interaction with the immune system, with associated retrieval and analysis tools. This article describes in detail the types of data and services that the new database offers, the tools provided and the database framework. The data and some of the HCV database tools are available for download for non-commercial use.