title: Database for bacterial group II introns.
abstract: The Database for Bacterial Group II Introns (http://webapps2.ucalgary.ca/~groupii/index.html#) provides a catalogue of full-length, non-redundant group II introns present in bacterial DNA sequences in GenBank. The website is divided into three sections. The first section provides general information on group II intron properties, structures and classification. The second and main section lists information for individual introns, including insertion sites, DNA sequences, intron-encoded protein sequences and RNA secondary structure models. The final section provides tools for identification and analysis of intron sequences. These include a step-by-step guide to identify introns in genomic sequences, a local BLAST tool to identify closest intron relatives to a query sequence, and a boundary-finding tool that predicts 5' and 3' intron-exon junctions in an input DNA sequence. Finally, selected intron data can be downloaded in FASTA format. It is hoped that this database will be a useful resource not only to group II intron and RNA researchers, but also to microbiologists who encounter these unexpected introns in genomic sequences.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada.
authors.forename: Manuel A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Candales
authors.forename: Adrian
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Duong
authors.forename: Keyar S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Hood
authors.forename: Tony
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Ryan A E
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Neufeld
authors.forename: Runda
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Bonnie A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: McNeil
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Ashley M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Jarding
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zimmerly
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D007438:Introns; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012329:RNA, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D012329:RNA, Bacterial
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