Large-scale Gene Ontology analysis of plant transcriptome-derived sequences retrieved by AFLP technology.

ABSTRACT:

Background

After 10-year-use of AFLP (Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism) technology for DNA fingerprinting and mRNA profiling, large repertories of genome- and transcriptome-derived sequences are available in public databases for model, crop and tree species. AFLP marker systems have been and are being extensively exploited for genome scanning and gene mapping, as well as cDNA-AFLP for transcriptome profiling and differentially expressed gene cloning. The evaluation, annotation and classification of genomic markers and expressed transcripts would be of great utility for both functional genomics and systems biology research in plants. This may be achieved by means of the Gene Ontology (GO), consisting in three structured vocabularies (i.e. ontologies) describing genes, transcri

SUBMITTER: Botton A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2515857 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature