Nucleic Acids Research Advance Access published online on October 8, 2008
Nucleic Acids Research, doi:10.1093/nar/gkn694
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MachiBase: a Drosophila melanogaster 5'-end mRNA transcription database
1Department of Computational Biology, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa 277-0882, 2Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Tokyo 102-8666, 3Department of Molecular Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033 and 4Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan
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Received August 15, 2008. Accepted September 25, 2008.
MachiBase (http://machibase.gi.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/) provides a comprehensive and freely accessible resource regarding Drosophila melanogaster 5'-end mRNA transcription at different developmental states, supporting studies on the variabilities of promoter transcriptional activities and gene-expression profiles in the fruitfly. The data were generated in conjunction with the recently developed high-throughput genome sequencer Illumina/Solexa using a newly developed 5'-end mRNA collection method.
The authors wish it to be known that, in their opinion, the first two authors should be regarded as joint First Authors.