EST Assembly

• Juha's links - Juha Muilu's list of useful EST links.
• TIGR gene indices - Many useful links
• Thesis - Andrey Ptitsyn's PhD thesis on EST CLustering
• Old reponse to OMG's Life Science Research (LSR) Request For Information (RFI) on sequence assembly programs
• UniGene was the original human EST/gene cluster database
• StackDB/ - Sequence Tag Alignment and Consensus Knowledgebase in South Africa built using a non-alignment-based sequence comparison algorithm
• Merck Gene Index - built using 3' EST clustering
• http://www.tigr.org/tdb/mgi/mgi.html - TIGR's Mouse Consensus Sequences
• Dots and Allgenes - An integrated database of transcribed and predicted sequences
• Little EST Consulting - Jeremy Parsons is extending and supporting the JESAM EST clustering tools.
• Paracel - Now part of Applera Corporation offer EST and genome assembly programs.
• Compugen (http://www.cgen.com/) and (http://www.compugen.co.il/) offer a specialised EST clustering/assembly program.

Related Companies

• Orion Genomics - Offer an alternative to EST approaches for crop plants.
• Genesis R&D - Offer plant EST sequencing and analysis in beautiful New Zealand.
• http://www.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk/geneservice/RNAservices/index.shtml  - The UK HGMP Resource Centre can help with RNA services.
• http://www.affymetrix.com/ - Use photolithography to put shorter oligos onto chips.
• Agilent - say they have many services for microarrays.
• SuperArray - offer application-specific cDNA arrays.