Table 2

A comparison of different alternative splicing databases and tools



Types of sequence supported












Referenced sequence
Protein
mRNA
ESTs
Statistics
Alignment tool
Literature search
Organisms

SpliceNest
Genomic sequence

Yes
Yes
90,000 EST clusters
REPuter [23]

Human and Arabidopsis
PALS db (Release 2)
Message RNA

Yes
Yes
19,936 (human)
BLAST

Human and mouse





16,615 (mouse)








UniGene clusters



SpliceDB
Genomic sequence

Yes
Yes
43,337 splice site pairs
BLAST
Yes
Mammalian
AsMmDB (version 1.0)
Genomic sequence

Yes
Yes
1,563 alternative splicing genes
FASTA
Yes
Human, mouse and rat
ASDB (version 2.1)

Yes


1,922 proteins

Yes

HASDB
Genomic sequence

Yes
Yes
6,201 UniGene clusters
BLAST

Human
BLAT server
User-submitted sequence
Yes
Yes
Yes

BLAT

Human and mouse
ProSplicer
Genomic sequence
Yes
Yes
Yes
21,786 genes
BLAST (protein) SIM4 (mRNA and ESTs)

Human

Huang et al. Genome Biology 2003 4:R29   doi:10.1186/gb-2003-4-4-r29

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