dbEST : A division of GenBank for cDNA sequence and mapping data

The EBI is mirroring the dbEST ressources of the NCBI.

dbEST (Nature Genetics 4:332-3;1993) is an NCBI resource, that contains sequence and mapping data on "single-pass" cDNA sequences or Expressed Sequence Tags from a number of organisms.
A brief account of the history and current status of human ESTs in GenBank is available (Trends Biochem. Sci. 20:295-6;1995). Also, consult the special "Genome Directory" issue of Nature (vol. 377, issue 6547S, 28 September 1995).

Information on the current release.
Search dbEST using the SRS query system.
Other ways to access dbEST.
How to submit data to dbEST.
Positionally cloned human disease genes currently found in dbEST

3/27/96 dbEST news! We are currently in the process of switching to a new version of dbEST. This will result in more up-to-date homology data for ESTs (updated on a daily basis) and a slightly different full report format. Expect this new report format to appear sometime in the next few weeks.

"Trace data" for sequences derived from I.M.A.G.E clones is available from the Washington University Genome Sequencing Center. Traces are retrieved using the identifier labelled "SourceEST_ID" in the dbEST record (e.g. yb01a01.s1, corresponding to GenBank accession number T48601).

Physical DNA clones from I.M.A.G.E. Consortium libraries are now available from a number of distributors . Clones may be ordered using the identifier labelled "CloneID" in the dbEST record (e.g. 69864, corresponding to GenBank accession number T48601).

ESTs are being used to develop transcript maps of the human genome.

Last updated: 24 Nov 1995 (PRT - Patricia. Rodriguez-Tome@ebi.ac.uk)