Oxytricha trifallax pilot genome project
Available queries:
| Search all blast results for keywords - With this option you can search the Blast results (e-value<=0.1, protein database) obtained for all the sequences in the pilot project for keywords |
| Blast your sequence against all Oxytricha clones - This page lets you search the pilot project sequences for homologues of a given protein or nucleotide sequence using Blast |
| Retrieve clone annotation by name - If you know which clone you are looking for this page lets you retrieve it by name |
| tRNA genes - This page contains information about the clones in the pilot project that contain tRNA genes according to the program tRNA-Scan |
References:
Oxytricha pilot genome
Doak TG, Cavalcanti ARO, Stover NA, Dunn DM, Weiss R, Herrick G, Landweber LF (2003) Sequencing the Oxytricha trifallax macronuclear genome: a pilot project. Trends Genet19 (11): 603–607.
Cavalcanti ARO, Stover N, Orecchia L, Doak TG, Landweber LF (2004) Properties of Oxytricha trifallax nanochromosomes: analysis of a pilot genome project. Chromosoma113 (2): 69 –76.
Cavalcanti ARO, Doak TG, Landweber LF (2004) Sequence features of Oxytricha trifallax (class Spirotrichia) macronuclear telomeric and subtelomeric sequences. Protist 155: 311–322.
Software used in the analyses:
Blast: Altschul, S.F., Gish, W., Miller, W., Myers, E.W. & Lipman, D.J. (1990) "Basic local alignment search tool." J. Mol. Biol. 215:403-410.
tRNA-Scan: Lowe, T.M. & Eddy, S.R. (1997) "tRNAscan-SE: A program for improved detection of transfer RNA genes in genomic sequence", Nucl. Acids Res., 25, 955-964.