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dbEST Announcement and Summary
January 12, 1995
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dbEST passes the 80,000 mark!
With the recent addition of 8,748 human and 2,799 yeast ESTs from
The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), dbEST has passed the
80,000 sequence mark.
The human TIGR ESTs are isolated from 35 libraries of various human
organs and tissues. TIGR ESTs may be accessed from dbEST as described below.
For additional information on the TIGR ESTs, you may contact the TIGR
database (tdbinfo at tdb.tigr.org).
dbEST may be accessed in a variety of ways:
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ACCESS TO EST DATA
The nucleotide sequences may be searched using the BLAST electronic mail
server. For more information send an e-mail message with the word "help"
in the body of the message to blast at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. The TBLASTN program
which takes an amino acid query sequence and compares it with six-frame
translations of dbEST DNA sequences is particularly useful.
Full reports on ESTs, including homology data, can be retrieved from the
dbEST electronic mail server. For more information send an e-mail message
to retrieve at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov -- include "datalib dbest" followed by "help"
on the next line in the body of the message.
dbEST may also be accessed via the World Wide Web Mosaic server. There is
a text querying facility included as part of the Web dbEST service.
URL for dbEST is http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/dbEST/index.html
or via the NCBI page at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
EST sequences are also available as a flat file in the FASTA format by
anonymous FTP in the /repository/dbEST directory at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Summary Statistics of dbEST v3.2
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Total public sequences: 80,174
Summary by Organism
Homo sapiens 44,473
Caenorhabditis elegans 12,104
Arabidopsis thaliana 8,520
Oryza sativa 7,556
Saccharomyces cerevisiae 2,933
Mus musculus 1,366
Plasmodium falciparum 1,104
Zea mays 1,039
Schistosoma mansoni 348
Brassica campestris 252
Capra hircus 108
Gallus gallus 65
Pyrococcus furiosus 50
Brassica napus 39
Macropus eugenii 36
Hippoglossus hippoglossus 32
Bos taurus 31
Oncorhynchus mykiss 22
Rattus norvegicus 18
Euplotes crassus 15
Pleuronectes americanus 14
Nicotiana tabacum 13
Cyclopterus lumpus 12
Sus scrofa 11
Drosophila melanogaster 8
Entamoeba histolytica 3
Mus musculus domesticus 2
