Bacterial Artificial Chromosomes (BACs) are useful resource for various genomic applications, like improving genome assembly, understanding genome organization, constructing physical map, positional cloning, targeted marker development etc. Globally, a large number of BAC libraries are available, but databases and analytical tools are limited to few species. Here, we developed a state-of-the-art bioinformatics platform named ‘BACMAP’, that contains BAC database of Clarias magur and a web server with application software for BAC resources analyses and management to store, analyze, and visualize BAC sequences for advanced sequence analysis and functional annotation. BACMAP server enables analysis of BAC with mapping, repeat analysis, annotation and SSR information from the input of clones’ end sequences. The integrated tools of the BACMAP resource can be applied using ends’ sequences of the BAC clones of 9 species, including human, cow, rice, mouse and 5 fish species. The magur BAC database contains information on 6089 BAC ends’, where 1907 BAC clones harbour 5392 genes, 130,200 SSRs and 453,170 repeats. BACMAP is a powerful platform for researchers to analyse BAC data and aligned genome regions of 9 species. This information could be useful in genomic studies, marker development and for studying the genetic basis of traits.
Keywords: BAC, Clarias magur, NBFGR, database, fish, web server.