title: cTrans: generating polypeptide databases from cDNA sequences.
abstract: cTrans is a comprehensive utility used to generate polypeptide databases from cDNA sequences. The goal is achieved through integrating four main functions, including retrieving sequences of species of interest from the downloaded packages from dbEST of GenBank, format conversion, checking and deleting vector and adaptor contamination, and translating the cDNA sequences in all six frames and selecting specific translations for database construction in a user-defined length threshold. In addition, this utility is also applicable to cDNA sequences produced by users themselves.
authors.affiliation: The Applied Plant Genomics Laboratory & National Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Haibin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Liming
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Pei
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Ye
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tao
authors.forename: Zhengqiang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Ma
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D019295:Computational Biology; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000235:genetics*; D030562:Databases, Protein; D020224:Expressed Sequence Tags; D010449:Peptide Mapping; D010455:Peptides / Q000235:genetics*; D014176:Protein Biosynthesis
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D010455:Peptides