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TargetIdentifier: a webserver for identifying full-length cDNAs from EST sequences.

Nucleic acids research ·Vol. 33 ·No. Web Server issue ·2005-07-01 ·Pages W669-72

Min XJ, Butler G, Storms R, Tsang A

Abstract

TargetIdentifier is a webserver that identifies full-length cDNA sequences from the expressed sequence tag (EST)-derived contig and singleton data. To accomplish this TargetIdentifier uses BLASTX alignments as a guide to locate protein coding regions and potential start and stop codons. This information is then used to determine whether the EST-derived sequences include their translation start codons. The algorithm also uses the BLASTX output to assign putative functions to the query sequences. The server is available at https://fungalgenome.concordia.ca/tools/TargetIdentifier.html.

MeSH Terms
Algorithms Aspergillus niger/genetics Codon DNA, Complementary/chemistry Databases, Genetic Expressed Sequence Tags/chemistry Humans Internet Sequence Alignment Sequence Analysis, DNA/methods Software User-Computer Interface
Chemicals
Codon DNA, Complementary
Authors & Affiliations
4 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID
Min Xiang Jia
Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec H4B 1R6, Canada. jack@gene.concordia.ca
Butler Gregory
Storms Reginald
Tsang Adrian
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Article Info
Journal
Nucleic acids research
Abbr.
Nucleic Acids Res
ISSN
1362-4962
DOI
10.1093/nar/gki436
Email
jack@gene.concordia.ca
Published
2005-07-01
Pages
W669-72
Language
English
Region
England
NLM ID
0411011
PMCID
PMC1160197
Subset
IM
External Links
PubMed source DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki436 PMC Full Text View journal details
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