WhETS -- Wheat Estimated Transcript Server

What you can do:
A tool to provide best estimate of hexaploid wheat transcript sequence.
Highlights:
  • Wheat biologists face particular problems because of the lack of genomic sequence and the three homoeologous genomes which give rise to three very similar forms for many transcripts.
  • However, over 1.3 million available public-domain Triticeae ESTs (of which approximately 850,000 are wheat) and the full rice genomic sequence can be used to estimate likely transcript sequences present in any wheat cDNA sample to which PCR primers may then be designed.
  • Wheat Estimated Transcript Server (WhETS) is designed to do this in a convenient form, and to provide information on the number of matching EST and high quality cDNA (hq-cDNA) sequences, tissue distribution and likely intron position inferred from rice.
  • Triticeae EST and hq-cDNA sequences are mapped onto rice loci and stored in a database.
  • The user selects a rice locus (directly or via Arabidopsis) and the matching Triticeae sequences are assembled according to user-defined filter and stringency settings.
  • Assembly is achieved initially with the CAP3 program and then with a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-analysis algorithm designed to separate homoeologues.
  • Alignment of the resulting contigs and singlets against the rice template sequence is then displayed.
  • Sequences and assembly details are available for download in fasta and ace formats, respectively.
Keywords:
  • Chromosome Mapping
  • Plant Chromosomes
  • Expressed Sequence Tags
  • Plant Genes
  • Plant Genome
  • Ploidies
  • Single Nucleotide Polymorphism
  • Sequence Alignment
  • Triticum
  • wheat
  • hexaploid
  • wheat trancsript
  • rice
This record last updated: 04-21-2014
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