FEBS Letters
Volume 559, Issue 1 , Pages 22-26, 13 February 2004

Absolute expression values for mouse transcripts: re-annotation of the READ expression database by the use of CAGE and EST sequence tags

Edited by Takashi Gojobori

  • Rimantas Kodzius

      Affiliations

    • Genome Science Laboratory, RIKEN, Wako Main Campus, Hirosawa 2-1, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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  • Yonehiro Matsumura

      Affiliations

    • Division of Genomic Information Resource Exploration, Science of Biological Supramolecular Systems, Graduate School of Integrated Science, Yokohama City University, 1-7-29 Suehiro-Cho, Tsurumi-Ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
    • Laboratory for Genome Exploration Research Group, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center (GSC), Yokohama Institute, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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  • Takeya Kasukawa

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory for Genome Exploration Research Group, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center (GSC), Yokohama Institute, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
    • Network Service Solution Business Group, NTT Software Corporation, 209 Yamashita-cho, Naka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 231-8551, Japan
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  • Kazuro Shimokawa

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory for Genome Exploration Research Group, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center (GSC), Yokohama Institute, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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  • Shiro Fukuda

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory for Genome Exploration Research Group, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center (GSC), Yokohama Institute, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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  • Toshiyuki Shiraki

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory for Genome Exploration Research Group, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center (GSC), Yokohama Institute, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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  • Mari Nakamura

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory for Genome Exploration Research Group, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center (GSC), Yokohama Institute, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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  • Takahiro Arakawa

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory for Genome Exploration Research Group, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center (GSC), Yokohama Institute, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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  • Daisuke Sasaki

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory for Genome Exploration Research Group, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center (GSC), Yokohama Institute, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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  • Jun Kawai

      Affiliations

    • Genome Science Laboratory, RIKEN, Wako Main Campus, Hirosawa 2-1, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
    • Laboratory for Genome Exploration Research Group, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center (GSC), Yokohama Institute, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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  • Matthias Harbers

      Affiliations

    • K.K. Dnaform, Tsukuba Branch, 3-1 Chuo 8-chome, Ami-machi, Inashiki-gun, Ibaraki 300-0332, Japan
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  • Piero Carninci

      Affiliations

    • Genome Science Laboratory, RIKEN, Wako Main Campus, Hirosawa 2-1, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
    • Laboratory for Genome Exploration Research Group, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center (GSC), Yokohama Institute, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Fax: (81)-48-4624686
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  • Yoshihide Hayashizaki

      Affiliations

    • Genome Science Laboratory, RIKEN, Wako Main Campus, Hirosawa 2-1, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
    • Laboratory for Genome Exploration Research Group, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center (GSC), Yokohama Institute, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan

Received 30 October 2003; received in revised form 26 December 2003; accepted 5 January 2004.

Abstract 

The RIKEN expression array database (READ) provides comprehensive gene expression data for the mouse, which were obtained as relative values from microarray double-staining experiments with E17.5 mRNA as common reference. To assign absolute expression values for mouse transcripts within READ, we applied the E17.5 reference sample to CAGE (cap analysis of gene expression) and expressed sequence tag (EST) high-throughput tag sequencing. Newly assigned values within the READ database were validated by comparison to expression data from serial analysis of gene expression, CAGE and EST experiments. These experiments confirmed the great significance of the absolute expression values within the improved READ database. The new Absolute READ database on absolute expression data is available under http://genome.gsc.riken.jp/absolute.

Keywords:  Gene expression, Cap analysis of gene expression, Serial analysis of gene expression, Microarray, Absolute value, Expressed sequence tag count

Abbreviations:  CAGE, cap analysis of gene expression, E17.5, mouse embryo whole body mixed sex E17.5 RNA, EST, expressed sequence tag, FANTOM, functional annotation of mouse, READ, RIKEN expression array database, RTS, representative transcript set, SAGE, serial analysis of gene expression, tpm, transcripts per million, TU, transcriptional unit

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PII: S0014-5793(04)00018-3

doi:10.1016/S0014-5793(04)00018-3

FEBS Letters
Volume 559, Issue 1 , Pages 22-26, 13 February 2004