title: ISOB: A Database of Indigenous Snake Species of Bangladesh with respective known venom composition.
abstract: At present there is no well structured database available for the venomous snakes and venom composition of snakes in the world although venom has immense importance in biomedical research. Searching for a specific venom component from NCBI, PDB or public databases is troublesome, because they contain huge amount of data entries. Therefore, we created a database named "ISOB" which is a web accessible unique secondary database that represents the first online available bioinformatics resource showing venom composition of snakes. This database provides a comprehensive overview of seventy-eight indigenous snake species covering description of snakes supplemented with structural information of the relevant individual available venom proteins. We strongly believe that this database will contribute significantly in the field of bioinformatics, environmental research, proteomics, drug development and rationale drug designing.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  The database is freely available at http://www.snakebd.com/.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi-6205, Bangladesh.
authors.forename: Zahida Yesmin
authors.initials: ZY
authors.lastname: Roly
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi-6205, Bangladesh.
authors.forename: Md Abdul
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Hakim
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi-6205, Bangladesh.
authors.forename: Asm Shahriar
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Zahan
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi-6205, Bangladesh.
authors.forename: M Monzur
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Hossain
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi-6205, Bangladesh.
authors.forename: Md Abu
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Reza
keywords: 3D structure; Bangladesh; Database; Indigenous snakes; Snake venom
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