title: Full-Malaria/Parasites and Full-Arthropods: databases of full-length cDNAs of parasites and arthropods, update 2009.
abstract: Full-Malaria/Parasites is a database for transcriptome studies of apicomplexa and other parasites, which is based on our original full-length cDNA sequences and physical cDNA clone resources. In this update, the database has been expanded to contain the shogun sequencing for the entire sequences of 14,818 non-redundant full-length cDNA clones from six apicomplexa parasites and 6.8 million of transcription start sites (TSS), both of which had been produced by novel protocols using the oligo-capping method and the Illumina GA sequencer. The former should be the ultimate data for exact annotation of the expressed genes, while the latter should be useful for ultra-deep expression analysis. Furthermore, we have launched Full-Arthropods, a full-length cDNA database for arthropods of medical importance. Full-Arthropods contains 50 343 one-pass sequences, 10 399 shotgun complete sequences and 22.4 million TSS tags in anopheles mosquitoes that transmit malaria, tsetse flies that transmit trypanosomiasis and dust mites that cause allergic dermatitis and bronchial asthma. By providing the largest integrated full-length cDNA data resources in the apicomplexa parasites as well as their vectors, Full-Malaria/Parasites and Full-Arthropods should help combat parasitic diseases. Full-Malaria/Parasites and Full-Arthropods are accessible from http://fullmal.hgc.jp/.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Genome Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo. 4-6-1, Shirokanedai, Minatoku, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan.
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wakaguri
authors.forename: Yutaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Toshiaki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Katayama
authors.forename: Shuichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kawashima
authors.forename: Eri
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kibukawa
authors.forename: Kazushi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hiranuka
authors.forename: Masahide
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sasaki
authors.forename: Sumio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sugano
authors.forename: Junichi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Watanabe
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000852:Anopheles / Q000235:genetics; D016782:Apicomplexa / Q000235:genetics*; D001179:Arthropod Vectors / Q000235:genetics*; D001181:Arthropods / Q000235:genetics*; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000737:chemistry*; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D010271:Parasites / Q000235:genetics*; D010961:Plasmodium / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D014122:Toxoplasma / Q000235:genetics; D024363:Transcription Initiation Site; D014370:Tsetse Flies / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary