title: BodyMap-Xs: anatomical breakdown of 17 million animal ESTs for cross-species comparison of gene expression.
abstract: BodyMap-Xs (http://bodymap.jp) is a database for cross-species gene expression comparison. It was created by the anatomical breakdown of 17 million animal expressed sequence tag (EST) records in DDBJ using a sorting program tailored for this purpose. In BodyMap-Xs, users are allowed to compare the expression patterns of orthologous and paralogous genes in a coherent manner. This will provide valuable insights for the evolutionary study of gene expression and identification of a responsive motif for a particular expression pattern. In addition, starting from a concise overview of the taxonomical and anatomical breakdown of all animal ESTs, users can navigate to obtain gene expression ranking of a particular tissue in a particular animal. This method may lead to the understanding of the similarities and differences between the homologous tissues across animal species. BodyMap-Xs will be automatically updated in synchronization with the major update in DDBJ, which occurs periodically.
authors.affiliation: Center for Information Biology and DNA Data Bank of Japan, National Institute of Genetics, 1111 Yata, Mishima, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan.
authors.forename: Osamu
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ogasawara
authors.forename: Makiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Otsuji
authors.forename: Kouji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: Takayasu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Iizuka
authors.forename: Takuro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tamura
authors.forename: Teruyoshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hishiki
authors.forename: Shoko
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kawamoto
authors.forename: Kousaku
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Okubo
mesh_terms: D000825:Animal Structures / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D020224:Expressed Sequence Tags / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D015870:Gene Expression; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D014584:User-Computer Interface