title: CHIKVPRO - a protein sequence annotation database for chikungunya virus.
abstract: In the recent past, there has been a resurgence of interest in Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) attributed to massive outbreaks of Chikungunya fever in the South-East Asia Region. This has reflected in substantial increase in submission of CHIKV genome sequences to NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) database. Hereby we submit a database "CHIKVPRO" containing structural and functional annotation of Chikungunya virus proteins (25 strains) submitted in the NCBI repository. The CHIKV genome encodes for 9 proteins:4 non-structural and 5 structural. The CHIKVPRO database aims to provide the virology community with a single accession authoritative resource for CHIKV proteome- with reference to physiochemical and molecular properties, proteolytic cleavage sites, hydrophobicity, transmembrane prediction, and classification into functional families using SVMProt and other Expasy tools.
  
  
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  The database is freely available at http://www.chikvpro.info/
authors.affiliation: Department of Biotechnology, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, NOIDA 201307, India.
authors.forename: Akaash Kumar
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Mishra
authors.forename: Chakresh Kumar
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Jain
authors.forename: Apurva
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Agrawal
authors.forename: Saransh Jain Kumar Sambhav
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Jain
authors.forename: Namrata
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Dudha
authors.forename: Kapila
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: Sanjeev K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.forename: Sanjay
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gupta