Physical Address
IGBB
Portera HPC Building
2 Research Boulevard
Starkville, MS 39759
Mailing Address
IGBB
Portera HPC Building
Box 9627
Mississippi State, MS 39762
Phone/Fax
Phone: 662-325-8278
Fax: 662-325-7692
See Personnel for individual IGBB faculty and staff contact names/numbers/email addresses.
CattleTickBase: An integrated Internet-based bioinformatics resource for Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus
IGBB Authors:
Daniel G. PetersonPUBLICATION YEAR:
2012IMPACT FACTOR:
3.683CITATION COUNT:
62Bellgard MI, Moolhuijzen PM, Guerrero FD, Schibeci D, Rodriguez-Valle M, Peterson DG, Dowd SE, Barrero R, Hunter A, Miller RJ, Lew-Tabor AE (2012) CattleTickBase: An integrated Internet-based bioinformatics resource for Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus.
International Journal for Parasitology 42(2): 161-169.
DOI:
10.1016/j.ijpara.2011.11.006EID:
2-s2.0-84856490819PMID: 22178513
DOWNLOAD PDFABSTRACTThe Rhipicephalus microplus genome is large and complex in structure, making it difficult to assemble a genome sequence and costly to resource the required bioinformatics. In light of this, a consortium of international collaborators was formed to pool resources to begin sequencing this genome. We have acquired and assembled genomic DNA into contigs that represent over 1.8Gigabase pairs of DNA from gene-enriched regions of the R. microplus genome. We also have several datasets containing transcript sequences from a number of gene expression experiments conducted by the consortium. A web-based resource was developed to enable the scientific community to access our datasets and conduct analysis through a web-based bioinformatics environment called YABI. The collective bioinformatics resource is termed CattleTickBase. Our consortium has acquired genomic and transcriptomic sequence data at approximately 0.9X coverage of the gene-coding regions of the R. microplus genome. The YABI tool will facilitate access and manipulation of cattle tick genome sequence data as the genome sequencing of R. microplus proceeds. During this process the CattleTickBase resource will continue to be updated.
Dr. Sandra B. CorreaAssistant Professor
Wildlife, Fisheries & AquacultureIGBB Affiliate
email(662) 325-0158
website Dr. Mark LawrenceProfessor
CVM Basic SciencesIGBB Affiliate
email(662) 325-1205
The IGBB is supported, in part, by the following units:
The IGBB is an HPC² member center.
