How Can Microarrays Unlock Asthma?

Table 1

Databases used in Affymetrix microarray annotation.

Database	Description		Website		References
Expressed Sequence Tag Database (dbEST)	Division of GenBank that contains “single-pass" cDNA sequences (only sequenced once), or “Expressed Sequence Tags"	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/dbEST/			[78]
The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR)	Constructed by clustering, then assembling expressed sequence tag (EST) and annotated gene sequences from GenBank	http://compbio.dfci.harvard.edu/tgi/			[79]
UniGene Build	Contains transcript sequence information including: protein similarities, gene expression, cDNA clone reagents, and genomic location	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/unigene/			[80]
GenBank	Annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/			[81]
The Reference Sequence (RefSeq)	Contains nonredundant, and well-annotated genomic DNA, transcripts, and protein sequences	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/RefSeq/			[82]