ESTExplorer: An expressed sequence tag (EST) assembly and annotation platform

Shivashankar H. Nagaraj; Nandan Deshpande; Robin B. Gasser; Shoba Ranganathan

doi:10.1093/nar/gkm378

ESTExplorer: An expressed sequence tag (EST) assembly and annotation platform

Shivashankar H. Nagaraj, Nandan Deshpande, Robin B. Gasser, Shoba Ranganathan^*

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The analysis of expressed sequence tag (EST) datasets offers a rapid and cost-effective approach to elucidate the transcriptome of an organism, but requiring several computational methods for assembly and annotation. ESTExplorer is a comprehensive workflow system for EST data management and analysis. The pipeline uses a 'distributed control approach' in which the most appropriate bioinformatics tools are implemented over different dedicated processors. Species-specific repeat masking and conceptual translation are in-built. ESTExplorer accepts a set of ESTs in FASTA format which can be analysed using programs selected by the user. After pre-processing and assembly, the dataset is annotated at the nucleotide and protein levels, following conceptual translation. Users may optionally provide ESTExplorer with assembled contigs for annotation purposes. Functionally annotated contigs/ESTs can be analysed individually. The overall outputs are gene ontologies, protein functional identifications in terms of mapping to protein domains and metabolic pathways. ESTExplorer has been applied successfully to annotate large EST datasets from parasitic nematodes and to identify novel genes as potential targets for parasite intervention. ESTExplorer runs on a Linux cluster and is freely available for the academic community at http://estexplorer.biolinfo.org.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-5
Number of pages	5
Journal	Nucleic Acids Research
Volume	35
Issue number	SUPPL.2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkm378
Publication status	Published - Jul 2007

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