title: An encyclopedia of mouse genes.
abstract: The laboratory mouse is the premier model system for studies of mammalian development due to the powerful classical genetic analysis possible (see also the Jackson Laboratory web site, http://www.jax.org/) and the ever-expanding collection of molecular tools. To enhance the utility of the mouse system, we initiated a program to generate a large database of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) that can provide rapid access to genes. Of particular significance was the possibility that cDNA libraries could be prepared from very early stages of development, a situation unrealized in human EST projects. We report here the development of a comprehensive database of ESTs for the mouse. The project, initiated in March 1996, has focused on 5' end sequences from directionally cloned, oligo-dT primed cDNA libraries. As of 23 October 1998, 352,040 sequences had been generated, annotated and deposited in dbEST, where they comprised 93% of the total ESTs available for mouse. EST data are versatile and have been applied to gene identification, comparative sequence analysis, comparative gene mapping and candidate disease gene identification, genome sequence annotation, microarray development and the development of gene-based map resources.
authors.affiliation: Washington University Genome Sequencing Center, St. Louis, Missouri 63108, USA. mmarra@alu.wustl.edu
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mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019295:Computational Biology; D016208:Databases, Factual; D020224:Expressed Sequence Tags; D015723:Gene Library; D005796:Genes / Q000235:genetics*; D016678:Genome; D051379:Mice / Q000235:genetics*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000706:statistics & numerical data