Wang Liangjiang, Wang Suzhi, Li Yonghua, Paradesi Martin S R, Brown Susan J
Bioinformatics Center, Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2007 Jan;35(Database issue):D476-9. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkl776. Epub 2006 Nov 7.
BeetleBase (http://www.bioinformatics.ksu.edu/BeetleBase/) is an integrated resource for the Tribolium research community. The red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum) is an important model organism for genetics, developmental biology, toxicology and comparative genomics, the genome of which has recently been sequenced. BeetleBase is constructed to integrate the genomic sequence data with information about genes, mutants, genetic markers, expressed sequence tags and publications. BeetleBase uses the Chado data model and software components developed by the Generic Model Organism Database (GMOD) project. This strategy not only reduces the time required to develop the database query tools but also makes the data structure of BeetleBase compatible with that of other model organism databases. BeetleBase will be useful to the Tribolium research community for genome annotation as well as comparative genomics.
甲虫数据库（http://www.bioinformatics.ksu.edu/BeetleBase/）是赤拟谷盗研究群体的一个综合资源库。赤拟谷盗（Tribolium castaneum）是遗传学、发育生物学、毒理学和比较基因组学领域的一种重要模式生物，其基因组最近已完成测序。构建甲虫数据库的目的是将基因组序列数据与有关基因、突变体、遗传标记、表达序列标签及出版物的信息整合起来。甲虫数据库采用了通用模式生物数据库（GMOD）项目开发的Chado数据模型和软件组件。这一策略不仅减少了开发数据库查询工具所需的时间，还使甲虫数据库的数据结构与其他模式生物数据库的结构兼容。甲虫数据库将对赤拟谷盗研究群体进行基因组注释及开展比较基因组学研究很有帮助。
