Title: HDVDB: a data warehouse for hepatitis delta virus

Authors: Sarita Singh; Sunil Kumar Gupta; Anuradha Nischal; Kamlesh Kumar Pant; Prahlad Kishore Seth

Addresses: Bioinformatics Centre, Biotech Park, Sector-G, Jankipuram, Lucknow 226021, Uttar Pradesh, India ' Bioinformatics Centre, Biotech Park, Sector-G, Jankipuram, Lucknow 226021, Uttar Pradesh, India ' Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, King George's Medical University, Chowk, Lucknow 226003, Uttar Pradesh, India ' Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, King George's Medical University, Chowk, Lucknow 226003, Uttar Pradesh, India ' Bioinformatics Centre, Biotech Park, Sector-G, Jankipuram, Lucknow 226021, Uttar Pradesh, India

Abstract: Hepatitis Delta Virus (HDV) is an RNA virus and causes delta hepatitis in humans. Although a lot of data is available for HDV, but retrieval of information is a complicated task. Current web database 'HDVDB' provides a comprehensive web-resource for HDV. The database is basically concerned with basic information about HDV and disease caused by this virus, genome structure, pathogenesis, epidemiology, symptoms and prevention, etc. Database also supplies sequence data and bibliographic information about HDV. A tool 'siHDV Predict' to design the effective siRNA molecule to control the activity of HDV, is also integrated in database. It is a user friendly information system available at public domain and provides annotated information about HDV for research scholars, scientists, pharma industry people for further study.

Keywords: data warehouse; hepatitis delta virus; HDV database; SiRNA; bioinformatics; genome structure; pathogenesis; epidemiology; hepatitis symptoms; hepatitis prevention; sequencing; bibliographic information.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBRA.2015.068091

International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications, 2015 Vol.11 No.2, pp.162 - 170

Received: 20 Sep 2012
Accepted: 02 Oct 2013
Published online: 17 Mar 2015 *

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