title: AppaDB: an AcedB database for the nematode satellite organism Pristionchus pacificus.
abstract: Pristionchus pacificus is a free-living nematode of the Diplogastridae family and was recently developed as a satellite system in evolutionary developmental biology. AppaDB, a P.pacificus database, was created (http://appadb.eb.tuebingen. mpg.de) to integrate the genomic data of P.pacificus, comprising the physical map, genetic linkage map, EST and BAC end sequence and hybridization data. This developing database serves as a repository to search and find any information regarding physical contigs or genetic markers required for mapping of mutants. Additionally, it provides a platform for the Caenorhabditis elegans community to compare nematode genetic data in an evolutionary perspective.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Evolutionsbiologie, Max-Planck Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie, Spemannstrasse 35-37, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Jagan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Srinivasan
authors.forename: Georg W
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Otto
authors.forename: Ulrich
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Kahlow
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Geisler
authors.forename: Ralf J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Sommer
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D019295:Computational Biology; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D020224:Expressed Sequence Tags; D023281:Genomics; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D009348:Nematoda / Q000235:genetics*; D020161:Physical Chromosome Mapping; D016324:Sequence Tagged Sites; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface