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. 2001 Jan 1;29(1):106-10.
doi: 10.1093/nar/29.1.106.

The ARKdb: genome databases for farmed and other animals

J Hu  1 , C Mungall, A Law, R Papworth, J P Nelson, A Brown, I Simpson, S Leckie, D W Burt, A L Hillyard, A L Archibald
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The ARKdb: genome databases for farmed and other animals

J Hu et al. Nucleic Acids Res. .

Abstract

The ARKdb genome databases provide comprehensive public repositories for genome mapping data from farmed species and other animals (http://www.thearkdb.org) providing a resource similar in function to that offered by GDB or MGD for human or mouse genome mapping data, respectively. Because we have attempted to build a generic mapping database, the system has wide utility, particularly for those species for which development of a specific resource would be prohibitive. The ARKdb genome database model has been implemented for 10 species to date. These are pig, chicken, sheep, cattle, horse, deer, tilapia, cat, turkey and salmon. Access to the ARKdb databases is effected via the World Wide Web using the ARKdb browser and Anubis map viewer. The information stored includes details of loci, maps, experimental methods and the source references. Links to other information sources such as PubMed and EMBL/GenBank are provided. Responsibility for data entry and curation is shared amongst scientists active in genome research in the species of interest. Mirror sites in the United States are maintained in addition to the central genome server at Roslin.

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Figure 1
Comparison of (from L to R) a cytogenetic map of porcine chromosome 8, a linkage map of porcine chromosome 8 and a linkage map of bovine chromosome 6. The ‘gene’ only option has been selected for the cytogenetic map in order to reduce the complexity of the map. The ‘mirror’ option has been selected for the central map in order to aid comparison of the two linkage maps.
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