title: BrucellaBase: Genome information resource.
abstract: Brucella sp. causes a major zoonotic disease, brucellosis. Brucella belongs to the family Brucellaceae under the order Rhizobiales of Alphaproteobacteria. We present BrucellaBase, a web-based platform, providing features of a genome database together with unique analysis tools. We have developed a web version of the multilocus sequence typing (MLST) (Whatmore et al., 2007) and phylogenetic analysis of Brucella spp. BrucellaBase currently contains genome data of 510 Brucella strains along with the user interfaces for BLAST, VFDB, CARD, pairwise genome alignment and MLST typing. Availability of these tools will enable the researchers interested in Brucella to get meaningful information from Brucella genome sequences. BrucellaBase will regularly be updated with new genome sequences, new features along with improvements in genome annotations. BrucellaBase is available online at http://www.dbtbrucellosis.in/brucellabase.html or http://59.99.226.203/brucellabase/homepage.html.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai - 625021, Tamil Nadu, India.
authors.forename: Jagadesan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sankarasubramanian
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai - 625021, Tamil Nadu, India.
authors.forename: Udayakumar S
authors.initials: US
authors.lastname: Vishnu
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai - 625021, Tamil Nadu, India.
authors.forename: L K M Abdul
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Khader
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai - 625021, Tamil Nadu, India.
authors.forename: Jayavel
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sridhar
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai - 625021, Tamil Nadu, India.
authors.forename: Paramasamy
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gunasekaran
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai - 625021, Tamil Nadu, India. Electronic address: jrajendhran@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Jeyaprakash
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rajendhran
mesh_terms: D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D001483:Base Sequence; D002002:Brucella / Q000235:genetics*; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D020407:Internet; D058885:Multilocus Sequence Typing / Q000379:methods*; D010802:Phylogeny; D013045:Species Specificity
keywords: BLAST; BrucellaBase; CARD; MLST; Phylogeny; VFDB