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Check out the progress on plant EST clustering

We try to update at regular intervals not exceeding three months. We try to provide quicker updates when large increments in EST sequences become available.

Yes, of course! You are free to download all EST assemblies and any other sequences stored at PlantGDB. The download page can be accessed from the "Download" tab on the header.

To create a Web link to the PlantGDB sequence display, append sequence ID
(e.g. ZmGSStuc11-12-04.1735.1) to
http://www.plantgdb.org/search/display/data.php?Seq_ID=ZmGSStuc11-12-04.1735.1

All our raw DNA sequences were imported from GenBank. Unfortunately, it is well known that many GenBank sequences contain "contamination" (e.g., cloning vector; E. coli). Therefore, all the raw DNA sequences went through our masking process by searching the GenBank UniVect DB and E. coli sequence. If any nucleotides of the sequences show strong match to the vector or E. coli, those nucleotides will be marked as X.

To download ESTs from PlantGDB, you can follow the following steps
1). go to our download site
2). click the "Sequence" link, now you have options to download the type of sequences in your interests.
3). If you are interested sorghum ESTs, click "PublicPlantSeq.php", it will
bring you to a search page. Now, let's say you are interested in the species "Sorghum bicolor", just type the species name in the search box and click the Search button. Then Click the "Download" link to access the FASTA sequences, where you should be able to find EST, cDNA and other Sorghum bicolor sequences. Notice that PlantGDB also provides "clean" version of those sequences - named as ContaminationMaskX.fasta. All the vector and E.coli contaminations are masked as X in those sequences.

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