Nucleic Acids Research Advance Access originally published online on November 1, 2006
Nucleic Acids Research 2007 35(Database issue):D110-D115; doi:10.1093/nar/gkl796
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Nucleic Acids Research, 2007, Vol. 35, Database issue D110-D115
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U12DB: a database of orthologous U12-type spliceosomal introns
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Received August 10, 2006. Revised September 26, 2006. Accepted October 2, 2006.
U12-type introns are spliced by the U12-dependent spliceosome and are present in the genomes of many higher eukaryotic lineages including plants, chordates and some invertebrates. However, due to their relatively recent discovery and a systematic bias against recognition of non-canonical splice sites in general, the introns defined by U12-type splice sites are under-represented in genome annotations. Such under-representation compounds the already difficult problem of determining gene structures. It also impedes attempts to study these introns genome-wide or phylum-wide. The resource described here, the U12 Intron Database (U12DB), aims to catalog the U12-type introns of completely sequenced eukaryotic genomes in a framework that groups orthologous introns with each other. This will aid further investigations into the evolution and mechanism of U12-dependent splicing as well as assist ongoing genome annotation efforts. Public access to the U12DB is available at http://genome.imim.es/cgi-bin/u12db/u12db.cgi.
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