iORbase 2.0 - Comprehensive Analysis Platform for Insect odorant Receptors
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The iORbase website citation:
1. iORbase2.0 website. https://iorbase.com/
2. Li, Q., Zhang, Y. F., Zhang, T. M., Wan, J. H., Zhang, Y. D., Yang, H., Huang, Y., Xu, C., Li, G. and Lu, H. M. (2023) iORbase: a database for the prediction of the structures and functions of insect olfactory receptors. Insect Science, doi: 10.1111/1744-7917.13162.
The following references present the previously published iOR annotation results for different insect species (some of the data have been manually checked and supplemented into the iORPDB module):
(2026)
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