UniGene
What you can do:
Find mapping and expression information for a unigene cluster (ESTs and full-length mRNA sequences organized into clusters that each represent a unique known or putative gene)
Highlights:
- UniGene is an experimental system for automatically partitioning GenBank sequences into a non-redundant set of gene-oriented clusters.
- Each UniGene cluster contains sequences that represent a unique gene, as well as related information such as the tissue types in which the gene has been expressed and map location.
- In addition to sequences of well-characterized genes, hundreds of thousands novel expressed sequence tag (EST) sequences have been included, which may serve as a resource for gene discovery.
- Tools provided on the UniGene web site allow researchers to browse cDNA libraries by developmental stage or tissue of origin, view surrogate expression profiles based on EST counts, and find groups of genes with similar expression patterns.
- Currently, sequences from the animals human, rat, mouse, cow, zebrafish, clawed frog, fruitfly and mosquito have been processed. Plant organisms are wheat, rice, barley, maize and cress.
Keywords:
- Expressed sequence tags analysis
- EST
- cDNA sequence analysis
- cDNA libraries
- gene expression analysis
- gene maps
- transcriptome viewer
- gene discovery tool
Literature & Tutorials:
Literature Link: UniGene: A Unified View of the Transcriptome
This record last updated: 05-09-2005