TargetIdentifier: a webserver for identifying full-length cDNAs from EST sequences

Nucleic Acids Res. 2005 Jul 1;33(Web Server issue):W669-72. doi: 10.1093/nar/gki436.

Abstract

TargetIdentifier is a webserver that identifies full-length cDNA sequences from the expressed sequence tag (EST)-derived contig and singleton data. To accomplish this TargetIdentifier uses BLASTX alignments as a guide to locate protein coding regions and potential start and stop codons. This information is then used to determine whether the EST-derived sequences include their translation start codons. The algorithm also uses the BLASTX output to assign putative functions to the query sequences. The server is available at https://fungalgenome.concordia.ca/tools/TargetIdentifier.html.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Aspergillus niger / genetics
  • Codon
  • DNA, Complementary / chemistry*
  • Databases, Genetic
  • Expressed Sequence Tags / chemistry*
  • Humans
  • Internet
  • Sequence Alignment
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA / methods*
  • Software*
  • User-Computer Interface

Substances

  • Codon
  • DNA, Complementary