Project description:The Mouse Genomes Project ( http://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/data/mouse-genomes-project ) uses using next-generation sequencing technologies to catalogue molecular variation in the common laboratory mouse strains, and a selected set of wild-derived inbred strains. Access to complete sequence of multiple inbred strains will add to these resources and will become a permanent foundation for a systems biology approach to phenotypic variation in the mouse. In this particular study, we have sequenced the transcriptome of whole-brain tissue from 16 laboratory mouse strains to examine differences in gene expression levels, differential RNA-editing, and for use in de novo gene prediction.
