antiCODE: a natural sense-antisense transcripts database

Background: Natural antisense transcripts (NATs) are endogenous RNA molecules that exhibit partial or complete complementarity to other RNAs, and that may contribute to the regulation of molecular functions at various levels. In recent years, large-scale NAT screens in several model organisms have produced much data, but there is no database to assemble all these data. AntiCODE intends to function as an integrated NAT database for this purpose. Results: This release of antiCODE contains more than 30,000 non-redundant natural senseantisense transcript pairs from 12 eukaryotic model organisms. In order to provide an integrated NAT research platform, efficient browser, search and Blast functions have been included to enable users to easily access information through parameters such as species, accession number, overlapping patterns, coding potential etc. In addition to the collected information, antiCODE also introduces a simple classification system to facilitate the study of natural an...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2007
• Where: BMCBI
• Authors: Yifei Yin, Yi Zhao, Jie Wang, Changning Liu, Shuguang Chen, Runsheng Chen, Haitao Zhao
• Keywords: BMCBI 2007, Endogenous Rna Molecules, Natural Antisense, Natural Antisense Transcripts