title: BGD: a database of bat genomes.
abstract: Bats account for ~20% of mammalian species, and are the only mammals with true powered flight. For the sake of their specialized phenotypic traits, many researches have been devoted to examine the evolution of bats. Until now, some whole genome sequences of bats have been assembled and annotated, however, a uniform resource for the annotated bat genomes is still unavailable. To make the extensive data associated with the bat genomes accessible to the general biological communities, we established a Bat Genome Database (BGD). BGD is an open-access, web-available portal that integrates available data of bat genomes and genes. It hosts data from six bat species, including two megabats and four microbats. Users can query the gene annotations using efficient searching engine, and it offers browsable tracks of bat genomes. Furthermore, an easy-to-use phylogenetic analysis tool was also provided to facilitate online phylogeny study of genes. To the best of our knowledge, BGD is the first database of bat genomes. It will extend our understanding of the bat evolution and be advantageous to the bat sequences analysis. BGD is freely available at: http://donglab.ecnu.edu.cn/databases/BatGenome/.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Molecular Ecology and Evolution, SKLEC & IECR, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Jianfei
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fang
authors.affiliation: Institute of Molecular Ecology and Evolution, SKLEC & IECR, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Xuan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Institute of Molecular Ecology and Evolution, SKLEC & IECR, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Shuo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mu
authors.affiliation: Institute of Molecular Ecology and Evolution, SKLEC & IECR, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Shuyi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Institute of Molecular Ecology and Evolution, SKLEC & IECR, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Dong
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dong
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002685:Chiroptera / Q000235:genetics*; D019295:Computational Biology; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D016678:Genome; D058977:Molecular Sequence Annotation; D010802:Phylogeny; D011381:Programming Languages; D057386:Search Engine; D013045:Species Specificity; D014584:User-Computer Interface