InsectBase 2.0: a comprehensive gene resource for insects

Mei Yang(Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs), Jing Dong(Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs), Shenyang Tang(Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs), Xi Chen(Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs), Hao Chen(Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs), Haonan Duanmu(Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs), Yuyang Cong(Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs), Mengyao Chen(Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs), Xinhai Ye(Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs), Hang Zhou(Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs), Kang He(Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs), Fei Li(Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs)
Nucleic Acids Research
November 8, 2021
10.1093/nar/gkab1090
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Abstract

Insects are the largest group of animals on the planet and have a huge impact on human life by providing resources, transmitting diseases, and damaging agricultural crop production. Recently, a large amount of insect genome and gene data has been generated. A comprehensive database is highly desirable for managing, sharing, and mining these resources. Here, we present an updated database, InsectBase 2.0 (http://v2.insect-genome.com/), covering 815 insect genomes, 25 805 transcriptomes and >16 million genes, including 15 045 111 coding sequences, 3 436 022 3'UTRs, 4 345 664 5'UTRs, 112 162 miRNAs and 1 293 430 lncRNAs. In addition, we used an in-house standard pipeline to annotate 1 434 653 genes belonging to 164 gene families; 215 986 potential horizontally transferred genes; and 419 KEGG pathways. Web services such as BLAST, JBrowse2 and Synteny Viewer are provided for searching and visualization. InsectBase 2.0 serves as a valuable platform for entomologists and researchers in the related communities of animal evolution and invertebrate comparative genomics.

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