In silico analysis of expressed sequence tags from Trichostrongylus vitrinus (Nematoda): Comparison of the automated ESTExplorer workflow platform with conventional database searches

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 9, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages

  Nagaraj, Shivashankar H ^a   Gasser, Robin B ^b   Nisbet, Alasdair J ^c   Ranganathan, Shoba ^a,d  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MOREDUN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC; COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS; CONVENTIONAL DATABASE; COST-EFFECTIVE APPROACH; EMBRYONIC LETHALITY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; SIGNALLING MOLECULES; DATA SETS; DATABASE MATCHING; DATABASE SEARCHES; DOUBLE-STRANDED RNA; DRUG TARGETS; ELEGANS; GENE DISCOVERY; GENE ONTOLOGY; HYBRIDISATION; IN-SILICO; ION CHANNEL; LOW QUALITIES; NEMATODA; PROTEASE INHIBITOR; RAPID ANALYSIS; SECRETED PROTEIN; SEMI-AUTOMATED; SLOW GROWTH; SMALL RUMINANTS; TRANSCRIPTOMES; WORK-FLOW SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ENZYME INHIBITION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; RNA; SEARCH ENGINES; BIOINFORMATICS;

GENES;

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; PROTOZOAL VACCINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN SECRETION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS VITRINUS; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EVALUATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA; STRONGYLIDA; TRICHOSTRONGYLIDAE; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS VITRINUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DATABASES, GENETIC; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS;

EID: 84871958585     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-9-S1-S10     Document Type: Article

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