title: InSatDb: a microsatellite database of fully sequenced insect genomes.
abstract: InSatDb presents an interactive interface to query information regarding microsatellite characteristics per se of five fully sequenced insect genomes (fruit-fly, honeybee, malarial mosquito, red-flour beetle and silkworm). InSatDb allows users to obtain microsatellites annotated with size (in base pairs and repeat units); genomic location (exon, intron, up-stream or transposon); nature (perfect or imperfect); and sequence composition (repeat motif and GC%). One can access microsatellite cluster (compound repeats) information and a list of microsatellites with conserved flanking sequences (microsatellite family or paralogs). InSatDb is complete with the insects information, web links to find details, methodology and a tutorial. A separate 'Analysis' section illustrates the comparative genomic analysis that can be carried out using the output. InSatDb is available at www.cdfd.org.in/insatdb.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, ECIL Road, Nacharam, Hyderabad 500 076, India.
authors.forename: Sunil
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Archak
authors.forename: Eshwar
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Meduri
authors.forename: P Sravana
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nagaraju
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000852:Anopheles / Q000235:genetics; D001516:Bees / Q000235:genetics; D012831:Bombyx / Q000235:genetics; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000235:genetics; D049750:Genome, Insect; D023281:Genomics; D020407:Internet; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats; D014231:Tribolium / Q000235:genetics; D014584:User-Computer Interface