HumCFS: a database of fragile sites in human chromosomes

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作者
Kumar, Rajesh [1 ,2 ]
Nagpal, Gandharva [2 ]
Kumar, Vinod [1 ,2 ]
Usmani, Salman Sadullah [1 ,2 ]
Agrawal, Piyush [1 ,2 ]
Raghava, Gajendra P. S. [1 ]
机构
[1] Indraprastha Inst Informat Technol, Ctr Computat Biol, New Delhi 110020, India
[2] Inst Microbial Technol, CSIR, Bioinformat Ctr, Chandigarh 160036, India
关键词
Chromosomal fragile site; Genomic instability; Database; Chemical inducers; Carcinogenesis; miRNA; DNA elements; Replication stress; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; WEB SERVER; COMMON; EXPRESSION; GENE; MULTIPLE; CANCER; REARRANGEMENTS; FRA16D;
D O I
10.1186/s12864-018-5330-5
中图分类号
Q81 [生物工程学(生物技术)]; Q93 [微生物学];
学科分类号
071005 ; 0836 ; 090102 ; 100705 ;
摘要
BackgroundFragile sites are the chromosomal regions that are susceptible to breakage, and their frequency varies among the human population. Based on the frequency of fragile site induction, they are categorized as common and rare fragile sites. Common fragile sites are sensitive to replication stress and often rearranged in cancer. Rare fragile sites are the archetypal trinucleotide repeats. Fragile sites are known to be involved in chromosomal rearrangements in tumors. Human miRNA genes are also present at fragile sites. A better understanding of genes and miRNAs lying in the fragile site regions and their association with disease progression is required.ResultHumCFS is a manually curated database of human chromosomal fragile sites. HumCFS provides useful information on fragile sites such as coordinates on the chromosome, cytoband, their chemical inducers and frequency of fragile site (rare or common), genes and miRNAs lying in fragile sites. Protein coding genes in the fragile sites were identified by mapping the coordinates of fragile sites with human genome Ensembl (GRCh38/hg38). Genes present in fragile sites were further mapped to DisGenNET database, to understand their possible link with human diseases. Human miRNAs from miRBase was also mapped on fragile site coordinates. In brief, HumCFS provides useful information about 125 human chromosomal fragile sites and their association with 4921 human protein-coding genes and 917 human miRNA's.ConclusionUser-friendly web-interface of HumCFS and hyper-linking with other resources will help researchers to search for genes, miRNAs efficiently and to intersect the relationship among them. For easy data retrieval and analysis, we have integrated standard web-based tools, such as JBrowse, BLAST etc. Also, the user can download the data in various file formats such as text files, gff3 files and Bed-format files which can be used on UCSC browser.Database URL:http://webs.iiitd.edu.in/raghava/humcfs/
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