BASE DE DATOS DE SECUENCIAS PARA EL VIRUS DE LA PPA

http://webainia.inia.es/cisa/asfv/index.asp

Access to the ASFV Sequence DataBase.

A computerized database based on the epidemiological data of more than 100 ASF virus isolates kept in the EU Reference Laboratory for African Swine Fever in Valdeolmos (Madrid) and downloaded from Genbank, has been established and is being continuously updated upon arrival of new isolates.

The main objective of this database is to obtain epidemiological information of the ASFV isolates from all epidemics in or near the European Union, as well as from all over the world. In addition, the sequences from defined regions of the ASFV genome included in this database, are a usefully tool for genetic typing of new isolates. This can be very important for comparing one's sequence to existing sequences in the database; one of the most time-consuming tasks in sequence analysis used to be locating the appropriate region in sequences from the database.

In order to make the epidemiological and the sequence data available to other laboratories through the World Wide Web (web), a searchable web interface was programmed, which can be accessed using an Internet browser like Netscape or Internet Explorer. In this database are included as options the possibility to search sequences by the viral isolate name, country or continent of origin, year of collection, or by host species. The possibility to search sequences by the name of the gene is in progress.