The Key Sericultural Laboratory of Agricultural Ministry, Southwest University, Chongqing 400716, China.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2010 Jan;38(Database issue):D453-6. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkp801. Epub 2009 Sep 30.
The SilkDB is an open-access database for genome biology of the silkworm (Bombyx mori). Since the draft sequence was completed and the SilkDB was first released 5 years ago, we have collaborated with other groups to make much remarkable progress on silkworm genome research, such as the completion of a new high-quality assembly of the silkworm genome sequence as well as the construction of a genome-wide microarray to survey gene expression profiles. To accommodate these new genomic data and house more comprehensive genomic information, we have reconstructed SilkDB database with new web interfaces. In the new version (v2.0) of SilkDB, we updated the genomic data, including genome assembly, gene annotation, chromosomal mapping, orthologous relationship and experiment data, such as microarray expression data, Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) and corresponding references. Several new tools, including SilkMap, Silkworm Chromosome Browser (SCB) and BmArray, are developed to access silkworm genomic data conveniently. SilkDB is publicly available at the new URL of http://www.silkdb.org.
丝胶数据库是一个开放获取的家蚕（Bombyx mori）基因组生物学数据库。自 5 年前完成草图序列并首次发布 SilkDB 以来，我们与其他团队合作，在蚕基因组研究方面取得了显著进展，例如完成了新的高质量家蚕基因组序列组装以及构建了一个全基因组微阵列来检测基因表达谱。为了容纳这些新的基因组数据并容纳更全面的基因组信息，我们使用新的网络界面重新构建了 SilkDB 数据库。在 SilkDB 的新版本（v2.0）中，我们更新了基因组数据，包括基因组组装、基因注释、染色体映射、同源关系和实验数据，如微阵列表达数据、表达序列标签（EST）和相应的参考文献。开发了几个新工具，包括 SilkMap、Silkworm Chromosome Browser（SCB）和 BmArray，以便方便地访问家蚕基因组数据。SilkDB 可在新的 URL http://www.silkdb.org 上公开获取。
