CATMA, a comprehensive genome-scale resource for silencing and transcript profiling of Arabidopsis genes

Background: The Complete Arabidopsis Transcript MicroArray (CATMA) initiative combines the efforts of laboratories in eight European countries [1] to deliver gene-specific sequence tags (GSTs) for the Arabidopsis research community. The CATMA initiative offers the power and flexibility to regularly update the GST collection according to evolving knowledge about the gene repertoire. These GST amplicons can easily be reamplified and shared, subsets can be picked at will to print dedicated arrays, and the GSTs can be cloned and used for other functional studies. This ongoing initiative has already produced approximately 24,000 GSTs that have been made publicly available for spotted microarray printing and RNA interference. Results: GSTs from the CATMA version 2 repertoire (CATMAv2, created in 2002) were mapped onto the gene models from two independent Arabidopsis nuclear genome annotation efforts, TIGR5 and PSB-EuGène, to consolidate a list of genes that were targeted by previously desi...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2007
• Where: BMCBI
• Authors: Gert Sclep, Joke Allemeersch, Robin Liechti, Björn De Meyer, Jim Beynon, Rishikesh Bhalerao, Yves Moreau, Wilfried Nietfeld, Jean-Pierre Renou, Philippe Reymond, Martin T. R. Kuiper, Pierre Hilson
• Keywords: Arabidopsis Transcript MicroArray, BMCBI 2007, Gene Models, GSTs