D. Lafontaine et al., UPDATE OF THE VIROID AND VIROID-LIKE SEQUENCE DATABASE - ADDITION OF A HEPATITIS-DELTA VIRUS-RNA SECTION, Nucleic acids research, 25(1), 1997, pp. 123-125
Recently, we developed and made available an online database that incl
udes all the reported (to our knowledge) viroid and viroid-like RNA se
quences [Bussire,F., Lafontaine,D. and Perreault,J.-P. (1996) Nucleic
Acids Res. 24, 1793-1798], We report here an update of this catalogue
which includes the addition of a new section devoted to human hepatiti
s delta virus (vHDV) sequences, This new section comprises all availab
le vHDV sequences, irrespective of their completeness, which have been
either published or were available from nucleic acid libraries, Addit
ional structural characteristics of the vHDV genome, such as the posit
ions of the self-catalytic domains, the antigen open reading frames, e
tc., are also included, The catalogue is available on the World Wide W
eb (http://www.callisto.si.usherb.ca/similar to jpperra) in a user-fri
endly form. It should provide an excellent reference point for further
molecular studies of these small circular pathogenic RNAs.