PDA v.2: improving the exploration and estimation of nucleotide polymorphism in large datasets of heterogeneous DNA

• Published in: Nucleic acids research Vol. 34; no. suppl-2; pp. W632 - W634
• Main Authors: Casillas, Sònia, Barbadilla, Antonio
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Oxford University Press 01.07.2006; Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
• Subjects: Algorithms; Animals; Databases, Nucleic Acid; DNA; Drosophila; Drosophila - genetics; genetic polymorphism; genetic variation; Internet; Internet resource; new methods; nucleotides; Polymorphism, Genetic; Quality Control; Sequence Alignment - standards; Sequence Analysis, DNA - methods; Software - standards; user interface; User-Computer Interface; world wide web
• ISSN: 0305-1048; 1362-4962
• DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl080

Pipeline Diversity Analysis (PDA) is an open-source, web-based tool that allows the exploration of polymorphism in large datasets of heterogeneous DNA sequences, and can be used to create secondary polymorphism databases for different taxonomic groups, such as the Drosophila Polymorphism Database (DPDB). A new version of the pipeline presented here, PDA v.2, incorporates substantial improvements, including new methods for data mining and grouping sequences, new criteria for data quality assessment and a better user interface. PDA is a powerful tool to obtain and synthesize existing empirical evidence on genetic diversity in any species or species group. PDA v.2 is available on the web at http://pda.uab.es/.