Synapse
⌘+K
Synapse
PulseExploreClubsResearchersJournals
Instagram
HomeClubsExplore
December 18, 2003Nucleic Acids ResearchOpen Access

The TIGR Plant Repeat Databases: a collective resource for the identification of repetitive sequences in plants

View Full Paper
Ask AI
Bookmark
Share

Authors

SOShuai OuyangCentral South University of Forestry and Technology

Discussion

Loading...

Member takes

Implication

Computational resource development reveals curated repetitive sequence databases across 12 plant genera, facilitating comparative genomics and genome annotation.

Key Points

  • To establish curated databases of repetitive DNA sequences across multiple plant genera and families to improve plant genome annotation and comparative analysis.
  • Constructed repetitive sequence databases for 12 plant genera: Arabidopsis, Brassica, Glycine, Hordeum, Lotus, Lycopersicon, Medicago, Oryza, Solanum, Sorghum, Triticum, and Zea.
  • Classified repetitive elements hierarchically into super-classes, classes, and sub-classes based on sequence and structural similarities.
  • Combined sequences across related genera to form four family-level databases representing Brassicaceae, Fabaceae, Gramineae, and Solanaceae.
  • Generated searchable and downloadable repetitive sequence databases for 12 key plant genera and four major plant families.
  • Established a hierarchical classification framework for indexing plant repeat elements to facilitate both sequence similarity searches and comparative genomic studies.

Cite This Study

Shuai Ouyang (2003) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69decbbf499d77a496b0cdc4https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkh099
View Full Paper
Ask AI
Bookmark
Share

Also Consider

Synapse has enriched 4 closely related papers on similar clinical questions. Consider them for comparative context:

  1. 1Genetic Definition and Sequence Analysis of Arabidopsis Centromeres1999 · 419 citations
  2. 2The genome sequence and structure of rice chromosome 12002 · 554 citations
  3. 3Rice Bioinformatics. Analysis of Rice Sequence Data and Leveraging the Data to Other Plant Species2001 · 56 citations
  4. 4Nested Retrotransposons in the Intergenic Regions of the Maize Genome1996 · 1,418 citations