Introduction

The transcriptome analyser project aims to provide tools to determine and document all the transcribed parts of a genome. The transcribed parts are defined by analysing experimental evidence, like expressed sequence tags (EST) and other mRNA sequences.

Status

The transcriptome analyser code was written and is being further developed by Christian Iseli at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR).

The transcriptome data, including transcribed regions, splice variants, SAGE mappings, MPSS mappings, Affymetrix chips mappings, etc., for several organisms are available from our anon FTP server. Some papers, using our transcriptome data, have already been published:

• An atlas of human gene expression from massively parallel signature sequencing (MPSS) Genome Res. 2005 15: 1007-1014.
• trome, trEST and trGEN: databases of predicted protein sequences NAR 2004 32: D509-D511.
• Comprehensive sampling of gene expression in human cell lines with massively parallel signature sequencing PNAS 2003 100: 4702-4705.
• Long-Range Heterogeneity at the 3' Ends of Human mRNAs Genome Res. 2002 12: 1068-1074.