HCVDB: hepatitis C virus sequences database.
To date, more than 30 000 hepatitis C virus (HCV) sequences have been deposited in the generalist databases DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ), EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database (EMBL) and GenBank. The main difficulties with HCV sequences in these databases are their retrieval, annotation and analyses. To help HCV researchers face the increasing needs of HCV sequence analyses, we developed a specialised database of computer-annotated HCV sequences, called HCVDB. HCVDB is re-built every month from an up-to-date EMBL database by an automated process. HCVDB provides key data about the HCV sequences (e.g. genotype, genomic region, protein names and functions, known 3-dimensional structures) and ensures consistency of the annotations, which enables reliable keyword queries. The database is highly integrated with sequence and structure analysis tools and the SRS (LION bioscience) keywords query system. Thus, any user can extract subsets of sequences matching particular criteria or enter their own sequences and analyse them with various bioinformatics programs available on the same server.


BACKGROUND
HCVDB is available from http://hepatitis.ibcp.fr.
Combet
Christophe
C
Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, UMR 5086, CNRS/UCBL, IFR128 Biosciences Lyon-Gerland, 7 passage du Vercors, 69367 Lyon Cedex 07, France.
Penin
François
F
Geourjon
Christophe
C
Deléage
Gilbert
G
D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D002874:Chromosome Mapping / Q000379:methods; D003628:Database Management Systems; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D004282:Documentation / Q000379:methods; D016679:Genome, Viral; D016174:Hepacivirus / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D017421:Sequence Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*
D014764:Viral Proteins