title: dCAS: a desktop application for cDNA sequence annotation.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Understanding gene regulation and expression is the key to the advancement of biology. EST sequence assembly and analysis provide unique benefits in this regard. We have developed a standalone application, dCAS (Desktop cDNA Annotation System), which performs automated EST cleaning, clustering, assembly and annotation on a desktop computer. Compared with other available tools, dCAS provides a more convenient and user-friendly solution to biologists for extracting biological meaning from sequence data.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  The dCAS package is distributed freely. A cross-platform installer and associated sequence databases can be downloaded at: http://exon.niaid.nih.gov/applications.html.
authors.affiliation: Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch, Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology and Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. guoyo@mail.nih.gov
authors.forename: Yongjian
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Jose M C
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Ribeiro
authors.forename: Jennifer M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.forename: Stephan
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authors.lastname: Bour