ASTD: The Alternative Splicing and Transcript Diversity database

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Title:	ASTD: The Alternative Splicing and Transcript Diversity database
Creators Name:	Koscielny, G., Texier, V.L., Gopalakrishnan, C., Kumanduri, V., Riethoven, J.J., Nardone, F., Stanley, E., Fallsehr, C., Hofmann, O., Kull, M., Harrington, E., Boue, S., Eyras, E., Plass, M., Lopez, F., Ritchie, W., Moucadel, V., Ara, T., Pospisil, H., Herrmann, A., Reich, J.G., Guigo, R., Bork, P., Doeberitz, M.V., Vilo, J., Hide, W., Apweiler, R., Thanaraj, T.A. and Gautheret, D.
Abstract:	The Alternative Splicing and Transcript Diversity database (ASTD) gives access to a vast collection of alternative transcripts that integrate transcription initiation, polyadenylation and splicing variant data. Alternative transcripts are derived from the mapping of transcribed sequences to the complete human, mouse and rat genomes using an extension of the computational pipeline developed for the ASD (Alternative Splicing Database) and ATD (Alternative Transcript Diversity) databases, which are now superseded by ASTD. For the human genome, ASTD identifies splicing variants, transcription initiation variants and polyadenylation variants in 68%, 68% and 62% of the gene set, respectively, consistent with current estimates for transcription variation. Users can access ASTD through a variety of browsing and query tools, including expression state-based queries for the identification of tissue-specific isoforms. Participating labs have experimentally validated a subset of ASTD-predicted alternative splice forms and alternative polyadenylation forms that were not previously reported. The ASTD database is accessed at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/astd.
Keywords:	Alternative Splicing, Database Management Systems, Genetic Databases, Information Storage and Retrieval, Reproducibility of Results, Software, User-Computer Interface, Animals, Mice, Rats
Source:	Genomics
ISSN:	0888-7543
Publisher:	Academic Press
Volume:	93
Number:	3
Page Range:	213-220
Date:	March 2009
Official Publication:	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygeno.2008.11.003
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