MyDNAmark.org: A Comprehensive Genomic Visualisation Database for Malaysian Species

Abstract

Malaysia is one of the most megadiverse regions in the world. Therefore, it is important to record these rich biodiversity data to safeguard and improve national conservation efforts. However, the lack of nationwide genomic sequencing hampers a more sophisticated species identification, data management, and analytics activities. Thus, this project aims to design and implement MyDNAmark.org, a comprehensive one-stop online DNA reference database with integrated DNA visualisation and digital references to allow the users to search, retrieve and analyse the collected DNA sequencing data interactively. This paper documented the system architecture and implementation methods to create MyDNAmark.org. The results of MyDNAmark.org can display taxonomy information of biodiversity in the web’s user interfaces and visualise the complex set of DNA data to allow new insights. Lastly, the authors identified several future works to improve MyDNAmark.org including improve user interaction, add visualisation methods to support more bioinformatics tasks, and conduct formal user evaluation.