Abstract
We have analyzed data of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) cDNA resources from a laboratory-grown miniature tomato cultivar "Micro-Tom" and provided the obtained information from databases.
To construct 'Kazusa Tomato Unigenes (KTUs)', we used Micro-Tom ESTs from nine cDNA libraries and publicly available tomato ESTs. Information of KTUs including functional annotations is available from MiBASE (http://www.pgb.kazusa.or.jp/mibase/). The current version of KTU (KTU3), constructed from 322,795 ESTs, contains 76,276 Unigenes.
We have also determined 13,227 High Throughput cDNAs (HTCs) from four Micro-Tom full-length cDNA libraries. We provide information of HTCs with functional annotations and structural annotations from KaFTom (http://www.pgb.kazusa.or.jp/kaftom/).
We have also developed a seamlessly integrated database 'TOMATOMICS' that combines information provided from MiBASE and KaFTom.
Acknowledgements: This work was partly supported by National Bio-Resource Project (NBRP). This research was also supported by Dr. Satoh (University of Tsukuba) and Dr. Arie (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology).
