title: Having a BLAST: Searchable transcriptome resources for the gilthead sea bream and the European sea bass.
abstract: The gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata) and the European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) are the most important aquaculture species in the Mediterranean Sea and since the last decade it has been seen an exponential increase in their available molecular resources. In order to improve accessibility to transcriptome resources, Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs), mRNA sequences and raw read sequences were assembled and deposited in BLAST queryable databases. The publicly available sea bream and sea bass sequences (6.4 and 247.5 million) generated 45,094 and 68,117 assembled sequences, with, respectively, arithmetic mean size of 998 and 2125bp and N50 of 1302 and 2966bp. The assemblies will be regularly updated and new analytical tools added to the web server at http://sea.ccmar.ualg.pt.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Ciências do Mar, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal. Electronic address: blouro@ualg.pt.
authors.forename: Bruno
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Louro
authors.affiliation: CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO, Laboratório Associado, Universidade do Porto. Campus Agrário de Vairão, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal.
authors.forename: João Pedro
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Marques
authors.affiliation: Centro de Ciências do Mar, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal.
authors.forename: Deborah M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Power
authors.affiliation: Centro de Ciências do Mar, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal.
authors.forename: Adelino V M
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Canário
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017756:Aquaculture; D001492:Bass / Q000235:genetics*; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D023281:Genomics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D021541:Sea Bream / Q000235:genetics*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000662:veterinary; D059467:Transcriptome
keywords: Aquaculture; Assembly; Transcriptome