CAFTAN: a tool for fast mapping, and quality assessment of cDNAs

Background: The German cDNA Consortium has been cloning full length cDNAs and continued with their exploitation in protein localization experiments and cellular assays. However, the efficient use of large cDNA resources requires the development of strategies that are capable of a speedy selection of truly useful cDNAs from biological and experimental noise. To this end we have developed a new high-throughput analysis tool, CAFTAN, which simplifies these efforts and thus fills the gap between large-scale cDNA collections and their systematic annotation and application in functional genomics. Results: CAFTAN is built around the mapping of cDNAs to the genome assembly, and the subsequent analysis of their genomic context. It uses sequence features like the presence and type of PolyA signals, inner and flanking repeats, the GC-content, splice site types, etc. All these features are evaluated in individual tests and classify cDNAs according to their sequence quality and likelihood to have ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: BMCBI
• Authors: Coral del Val, Vladimir Yurjevich Kuryshev, Karl-Heinz Glatting, Peter Ernst, Agnes Hotz-Wagenblatt, Annemarie Poustka, Sándor Suhai, Stefan Wiemann
• Keywords: BMCBI 2006, Cdnas, Exon CDNAs, Length CDNAs