title: TRAIT (TRAnscript Integrated Table): a knowledgebase of human skeletal muscle transcripts.
abstract: TRAIT is a knowledgebase integrating information on transcripts with related data from genome, proteins, ortholog genes and diseases. It was initially built as a system to manage an EST-based gene discovery project on human skeletal muscle, which yielded over 4500 independent sequence clusters. Transcripts are annotated using automatic as well as manual procedures, linking known transcripts to public databases and unknown transcripts to tables of predicted features. Data are stored in a MySQL database. Complex queries are automatically built by means of a user-friendly web interface that allows the concurrent selection of many fields such as ontology, expression level, map position and protein domains. The results are parsed by the system and returned in a ranked order, in respect to the number of satisfied criteria.
authors.affiliation: CRIBI, Università di Padova, via Ugo Bassi 58/B, Padova, 35131 Italy.
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Toppo
authors.forename: Nicola
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Cannata
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fontana
authors.forename: Chiara
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Romualdi
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Laveder
authors.forename: Emanuela
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bertocco
authors.forename: Gerolamo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lanfranchi
authors.forename: Giorgio
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Valle
mesh_terms: D003628:Database Management Systems; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D004282:Documentation; D020224:Expressed Sequence Tags; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods; D009124:Muscle Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000378:metabolism*; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000379:methods*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods; D012984:Software; D014158:Transcription, Genetic / Q000235:genetics*; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D009124:Muscle Proteins