Structural annotation of equine protein-coding genes determined by mRNA sequencing

ABSTRACT: The horse, like a majority of animal species, has a limited amount of species-specific expressed sequence data available in public databases. As a result, structural models for a majority of genes defined in the equine genome are predictions based on ab initio sequence analysis or the projection of gene structures from other mammalian species. The current study used Illumina-based sequencing of messenger RNA (RNA-seq) to help refine structural annotation of equine protein-coding genes and for a preliminary assessment of gene expression patterns. Sequencing of mRNA from eight equine tissues generated 293,758,105 thirty five-base sequence tags, equaling 10.28 giga-basepairs of total sequence data. The tag alignments represent approximately 208X coverage of the equine mRNA transcriptome a

ORGANISM(S): Equus caballus

SUBMITTER: Stephen Coleman 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-21925 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress