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Website Resources

IPDR utilizes a variety of programs and resources in order to function. These resources are listed here.

Databases

The Influenza Sequence Database at LANL

Website: http://www.flu.lanl.gov

Macken, C., Lu, H., Goodman, J., & Boykin, L., (2001) The value of a database in surveillance and vaccine selection. In: A.D.M.E. Osterhaus, N. Cox & A.W. Hampson (eds) Options for the Control of Influenza IV. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, pp 103-106.

Influenza Virus Resource at NCBI

Website: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/FLU/FLU.html

VirOligo Compilation Lab

Website: http://viroligo.okstate.edu

Onodera, K., & Melcher, U. (2002) VirOligo: a database of virus-specific oligonucleotides. Nucleic Acids Res., 30(1):2003-4.

Bioinformatics Programs

BLAST

Website: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/

Altschul, Stephen F., Thomas L. Madden, Alejandro A. Schaffer, Jinghui Zhang, Zheng Zhang, Webb Miller, and David J. Lipman (1997) Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs. Nucleic Acids Res. 25:3389-3402.

MAFFT

Website: http://align.bmr.kyushu-u.ac.jp/mafft/software/

Kotah, K., Kuma, K., Toh, H., & Miyata, T. (2005) MAFFT version 5: improvement in accuracy of multiple sequence alignment. Nucleic Acids Res. 33:511-518.

Primer3

Website: http://frodo.wi.mit.edu

Steve Rozen and Helen J. Skaletsky (2000) Primer3 on the WWW for general users and for biologist programmers. In: Krawetz S, Misener S (eds) Bioinformatics Methods and Protocols: Methods in Molecular Biology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp 365-386
Source code available at http://primer3.sourceforge.net/.