TY  - JOUR
A1  - Nord, Alex S.
A1  - Chang, Patricia J.
A1  - Conklin, Bruce R.
A1  - Cox, Antony V.
A1  - Harper, Courtney A.
A1  - Hicks, Geoffrey G.
A1  - Huang, Conrad C.
A1  - Johns, Susan J.
A1  - Kawamoto, Michiko
A1  - Liu, Songyan
A1  - Meng, Elaine C.
A1  - Morris, John H.
A1  - Rossant, Janet
A1  - Ruiz, Patricia
A1  - Skarnes, William C.
A1  - Soriano, Philippe
A1  - Stanford, William L.
A1  - Stryke, Doug
A1  - Melchner, Harald von
A1  - Wurst, Wolfgang
A1  - Yamamura, Ken-ichi
A1  - Young, Stephen G.
A1  - Babbitt, Patricia C.
A1  - Ferrin, Thomas E.
T1  - The International Gene Trap Consortium website : a portal to all publicly available gene trap cell lines in mouse
T2  - Nucleic Acids Research
N2  - Gene trapping is a method of generating murine embryonic stem (ES) cell lines containing insertional mutations in known and novel genes. A number of international groups have used this approach to create sizeable public cell line repositories available to the scientific community for the generation of mutant mouse strains. The major gene trapping groups worldwide have recently joined together to centralize access to all publicly available gene trap lines by developing a user-oriented Website for the International Gene Trap Consortium (IGTC). This collaboration provides an impressive public informatics resource comprising ~45 000 well-characterized ES cell lines which currently represent ~40% of known mouse genes, all freely available for the creation of knockout mice on a non-collaborative basis. To standardize annotation and provide high confidence data for gene trap lines, a rigorous identification and annotation pipeline has been developed combining genomic localization and transcript alignment of gene trap sequence tags to identify trapped loci. This information is stored in a new bioinformatics database accessible through the IGTC Website interface. The IGTC Website (www.genetrap.org) allows users to browse and search the database for trapped genes, BLAST sequences against gene trap sequence tags, and view trapped genes within biological pathways. In addition, IGTC data have been integrated into major genome browsers and bioinformatics sites to provide users with outside portals for viewing this data. The development of the IGTC Website marks a major advance by providing the research community with the data and tools necessary to effectively use public gene trap resources for the large-scale characterization of mammalian gene function.
Y1  - 2006
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2754
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-26365
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VL  - 34
IS  - Issue suppl 1
SP  - D642
EP  - D648
CY  - Oxford
ER  -