title: AphidBase: a database for aphid genomic resources.
abstract: AphidBase aims to (i) store recently acquired genomic resources on aphids and (ii) compare them to other insect resources as functional annotation tools. For that, the Drosophila melanogaster genome has been loaded in the database using the GMOD open source software for a comparison with the 17 069 pea aphid unique transcripts (contigs) and the 13 639 gene transcripts of the Anopheles gambiae. Links to FlyBase and A.gambiae Entrez databases allow a rapid characterization of the putative functions of the aphid sequences. Text mining of the D.melanogaster literature was performed to construct a network of co-cited gene or protein names, which should facilitate functional annotation of aphid homolog sequences. AphidBase represents one of the first genomic databases for a hemipteran insect.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  http://w3.rennes.inra.fr/AphidBase.
authors.affiliation: INRA, Agrocampus Rennes, UMR 1099 BiO3P (Biology of Organisms and Populations applied to Plant Protection), F-35653 LE RHEU, France. jean-pierre.gauthier@rennes.infra.fr
authors.forename: Jean-Pierre
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Gauthier
authors.forename: Fabrice
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Legeai
authors.forename: Alain
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zasadzinski
authors.forename: Claude
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rispe
authors.forename: Denis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tagu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001042:Aphids / Q000235:genetics*; D002874:Chromosome Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D003628:Database Management Systems; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D014157:Transcription Factors