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| Name | ASTRA |
|---|---|
| Aliases | Alternative Splicing and TRanscription Archives |
| Description | ASTRA is a database that classifies alternative splicing patterns and alternative transcriptional initiation patterns of Human, Mouse, D.melanogaster, C.elegans, A.thaliana, O. sativa. (cited from the original site) |
| Type | DB |
| Main Institutes of management | Computational Biology Research Center (CBRC), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) |
| Country of the Institute | Japan |
| URL of the site | http://alterna.cbrc.jp/index.php |
| Interface | GUI(JAVA applet) |
| Input example | Select the pulldown-menu(Splicing Type) “cassette”on the center of the top page, the push “Search!” button. |
| Amount of the all data for download（Mbyte） | Method to obtain the all data. | - | None |
| External resources (databases) in building the product. | UniGene |
| Data type | DNA-sequence |
| Biological species in the main concern | Human , Mouse, D. melanogaster, C. elegans, A. thaliana, O. sativa |
| Conditions of use | Under investigation |
| Frequency of updates (in last two years) | 0 |
| Last date of updates (date of confirmation) | 2005/01/01 (2009/01/21) |
| Main IDs used in the products | None |
| How to make a link to get access to each IDs. | None |
| external databases to which this database/tool have links | Human genome resources | UniGene | ensembl |
| Published papers (PubMed IDs) | [1] Nagasaki, H., Arita, M., Nishizawa, T., Suwa, M., and Gotoh, O. (2005) “Species-specific variation of alternative splicing and transcriptional initiation in six eukaryotes.” Gene, 364, 53-62. [2] Nagasaki, H., Arita, M., Nishizawa, T., Suwa, M., Gotoh, O. (2006) “Automated classification of alternative splicing and transcriptional initiation and construction of a visual database of the classified patterns.” Bioinformatics, 22 (10), 1211-1216. |