ISOB: A Database of Indigenous Snake Species of Bangladesh with respectively known venom composition
Biomedical Informatics · Feb 28, 2015 [See publication]
The Database is available free of cost at: http://snakebd.com
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This project was developed during 2012-2013 as an online database of joint academic research work of the Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Rajshahi, and the Department of Botany, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. This was the first online database of snakes of Bangladesh with respectively known venom composition.
Subject to the Abstract of the project, there was 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 a 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 descriptions of snakes supplemented with structural information of the relevant individual available venom proteins. We strongly believed that this database will contribute significantly to the field of bioinformatics, environmental research, proteomics, drug development, and rationale drug designing. Now it is a very popular database of Indigenous Snake Species of Bangladesh with respectively known venom compositions.
Biomedical Informatics · Feb 28, 2015 [See publication]
The Database is available free of cost at: http://snakebd.com
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Academic Information / Publication
Title:
ISOB: A Database of Indigenous Snake Species of Bangladesh with respectively known venom composition
Authors:
Zahida Yesmin Roly (1), Md Abdul Hakim (1), ASM Shahriar Zahan (2), M Monzur Hossain (2) & Md Abu Reza (1)
Affiliation:
(1) Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi-6205, Bangladesh; (2) Department of Botany, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi-6205, Bangladesh
Article Type: Database
Date:
Received January 00, 2015; Accepted January 22, 2015; Published February 28, 2015
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 a 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 the venom composition of snakes. This database provides a comprehensive overview of seventy-eight indigenous snake species covering descriptions 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.
Availability: http://www.snakebd.com/
Keywords: Snake venom, Database, Indigenous snakes, Bangladesh, 3D structure
Citation: Roly et al. Bioinformation 11(2): 107-114 (2015)
Edited by: P Kangueane
ISSN: 0973-2063
Publisher: Biomedical Informatics
Copyright: Publisher