title: MEPD: a resource for medaka gene expression patterns.
abstract: The Medaka Expression Pattern Database (MEPD) is a database for gene expression patterns determined by in situ hybridization in the small freshwater fish medaka (Oryzias latipes). Data have been collected from various research groups and MEPD is developing into a central expression pattern depository within the medaka community. Gene expression patterns are described by images and terms of a detailed medaka anatomy ontology of over 4000 terms, which we have developed for this purpose and submitted to Open Biological Ontologies. Sequences have been annotated via BLAST match results and using Gene Ontology terms. These new features will facilitate data analyses using bioinformatics approaches and allow cross-species comparisons of gene expression patterns. Presently, MEPD has 19,757 entries, for 1024 of them the expression pattern has been determined.
authors.affiliation: EMBL Heidelberg Meyerhofstrasse 1, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany. henrich@embl.de
authors.forename: Thorsten
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Henrich
authors.forename: Mirana
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ramialison
authors.forename: Beate
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wittbrodt
authors.forename: Beatrice
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Assouline
authors.forename: Franck
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bourrat
authors.forename: Anja
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Berger
authors.forename: Heinz
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Himmelbauer
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sasaki
authors.forename: Nobuyoshi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Shimizu
authors.forename: Monte
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Westerfield
authors.forename: Hisato
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kondoh
authors.forename: Joachim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wittbrodt
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003628:Database Management Systems; D030562:Databases, Protein; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D009990:Oryzias / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D020543:Proteome / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D020539:Sequence Analysis, Protein / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D020543:Proteome