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1. Attimonelli M, Altamura N, Boyen C, Benne R, Brennicke A, Carone A, Cooper JM, D'Elia D, De Montalvo A, De Pinto B, De Robertis M, Golik P, Grienenberger JM, Knoop V, Lanave C, Lazowska J, Lemagnen A, Malladi SB, Memeo F, Monnerot M, Pilbout S, Schapira AHV, Sloof P, Slonimski P, Stevens K, Saccone C MitBASE : a comprehensive and integrated mitochondrial DNA Database Meeting: BIOCOMP 1999 - Year: 1999 Full text in a new tab Topic: Bioinformatics Abstract: MitBASE is an integrated and comprehensive database of mitochondrial DNA data which collects all available information from different organisms and from intraspecies variants and mutants. Excellent research institutions from different countries are involved, each in charge of developing, collecting and annotating data for the organisms they are specialised in. The design of the actual structure of the database and its implementation in a user- friendly format are the care of the European Bioinformatic Institute. The database can be accessed on the Web at the following address: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/htbin/Mitbase/mitbase.pl. The impact of this project is outstanding both for basic and applied research, such as the study of mitochondrial genetic diseases and mitochondrial DNA intraspecies diversity exploited in several biotechnological fields. The database has been funded within the EU Biotechnology programme. |
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2. Attimonelli M, Cooper JM, D'Elia D, De Montalvo A, De Robertis M, Lehvaslaiho H, Malladi SB, Memeo F, Stevens K, Schapira AHV, Saccone C Update of the human mitBASE database Meeting: BIOCOMP 1999 - Year: 1999 Full text in a new tab Topic: Bioinformatics Abstract: Human MitBASE is a database collecting human mtDNA variants. This database is part of a greater mitochondrial genome database (MitBASE) funded within the EU Biotech Program (1). The present paper reports the recent improvements in data structure, data quality and data quantity. As far as the database structure is concerned it is now fully designed and implemented. Based on the previously described structure (2) some changes have been made to optimise both data input and data quality. Cross-referencings with other bio-databases (EMBL, OMIM, MEDLINE) have been implemented. Human MitBASE data can be queried with the MitBASE Simple Query System (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/htbin/Mitbase/mitbase.pl.) and with SRS at the EBI under the ìMutationî section (http://srs.ebi.ac.uk/srs5/ ). At present the Human MitBASE node contains about 5000 variants related to studies investigating population polymorphisms and pathologies. |