FMiR: A Curated Resource of Mitochondrial DNA Information for Fish

PLoS One. 2015 Aug 28;10(8):e0136711. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0136711. eCollection 2015.

Abstract

Mitochondrial genome sequences have been widely used for evolutionary and phylogenetic studies. Among vertebrates, fish are an important, diverse group, and their mitogenome sequences are growing rapidly in public repositories. To facilitate mitochondrial genome analysis and to explore the valuable genetic information, we developed the Fish Mitogenome Resource (FMiR) database to provide a workbench for mitogenome annotation, species identification and microsatellite marker mining. The microsatellites are also known as simple sequence repeats (SSRs) and used as molecular markers in studies on population genetics, gene duplication and marker assisted selection. Here, easy-to-use tools have been implemented for mining SSRs and for designing primers to identify species/habitat specific markers. In addition, FMiR can analyze complete or partial mitochondrial genome sequence to identify species and to deduce relational distances among sequences across species. The database presently contains curated mitochondrial genomes from 1302 fish species belonging to 297 families and 47 orders reported from saltwater and freshwater ecosystems. In addition, the database covers information on fish species such as conservation status, ecosystem, family, distribution and occurrence downloaded from the FishBase and IUCN Red List databases. Those fish information have been used to browse mitogenome information for the species belonging to a particular category. The database is scalable in terms of content and inclusion of other analytical modules. The FMiR is running under Linux operating platform on high performance server accessible at URL http://mail.nbfgr.res.in/fmir.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Base Sequence
  • Databases, Nucleic Acid*
  • Fishes / genetics*
  • Genome, Mitochondrial*
  • Microsatellite Repeats
  • Molecular Sequence Data

Grants and funding

All the funding was provided by National Agricultural Innovation Project (File No. 30 (68)/2009/Bio-informatics/NAIP/O&M) for establishment of National Agricultural Bioinformatics Grid for National Agricultural Research and Education System in India. Dr. N.S. Nagpure was the Principal Investigator for the fisheries domain project. The project aimed at capacity building in fish bioinformatics and ended on 30th June, 2014. The role of the funders was only to create infrastructure and the funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.