The TIGR Gene Indices -- clustering and assembling EST and known genes and integration with eukaryotic genomes
What you can do:
Search for annotated genetic information of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) in different eukaryotic organisms.
Highlights:
- The web site is a collection of 77 species-specific databases that use a highly refined protocol to analyze gene and EST sequences in an attempt to identify and characterize expressed transcripts and to present them on the Web in a user-friendly, consistent fashion.
- A Gene Index database is constructed for each selected organism by first clustering, then assembling EST and annotated cDNA and gene sequences from GenBank.
- This process produces a set of unique, high-fidelity virtual transcripts, or tentative consensus (TC) sequences. The TC sequences can be used to provide putative genes with functional annotation, to link the transcripts to genetic and physical maps, to provide links to orthologous and paralogous genes, and as a resource for comparative and functional genomic analysis.
Keywords:
- expressed sequence tags
- expressed sequence tags data warehouse
- ESTs
- ESTs data warehouse
- eukaryotic ESTs
- eukaryotic genomes
- genetic maps
- physical maps
- functional genomics
- gene annotations
- ESTs annotation
Literature & Tutorials:
PubMed Link: The TIGR Gene Indices
This record last updated: 05-10-2005