| Info. | Vol.7 - No.3 (2013.09.20) |
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| Title | Construction of an integrated barcode database for the molecular identification of species |
| Authors | Seunghoon Baek1, Incheol Ha2, Sungmin Kim3, Seung Hwan Lee2, Hye Hyun Oh2, Dong Chan Moon2, Won Kim3 & Yangseok Kim1,4 |
| Institutions | 1BIO-AGE, Inc.,163 Samsung-Dong, Gangnam-Gu, Seoul, Korea 2DNA Forensic Division, Supreme Prosecutors??Office, Seoul, Korea 3School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747, Korea 4Department of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 130-701, Korea |
| Abstract | Species identification based on molecular markers is a major concern in the field of phylogenetic systematics because it has a wide range of applications such as molecular forensics and biodiversity research. Therefore, a well-organized and curated database is essential to meet this need. Barcode of Life Database (BOLD) is the main database system that stores a large variety of species identification markers. However, BOLD does not contain all of the barcode information available in other databases such as GenBank and the Korea Barcode Of Life database (KBOL). As a result, users must navigate all of these databases to obtain integrated information on barcodes and species. To solve this issue, we have constructed a molecular marker database for the integration of all available barcode information. BOLD, the National Center for Biological Information database, and KBOL were used as external sources for database construction. We carefully annotated all data from each database for the exclusion of duplicate information and unreliable data. As a result, the database contains 622,913 molecular markers that identify 104,487 species. Among these, 5,320 makers can be used for the identification of 2,326 Korean species. This database is freely available on the internet (http://203.234.220.113/). |
| Keyword | Database, Bioinformatics, Species identification, Molecular marker, Barcode |
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