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A conifer genomics resource of 200,000 spruce (Picea spp.) ESTs and 6,464 high-quality, sequence-finished full-length cDNAs for Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis)

Steven G Ralph1,5, Hye JE Chun2, Natalia Kolosova1,3, Dawn Cooper1, Claire Oddy1, Carol E Ritland4, Robert Kirkpatrick2, Richard Moore2, Sarah Barber2, Robert A Holt2, Steven JM Jones2, Marco A Marra2, Carl J Douglas3, Kermit Ritland4 and Jörg Bohlmann1*

Author Affiliations

1 Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Canada

2 British Columbia Cancer Agency Genome Sciences Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, V5Z 4E6, Canada

3 Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Canada

4 Department of Forest Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Canada

5 Department of Biology, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, 58202-9019, USA

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BMC Genomics 2008, 9:484 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-9-484

Published: 14 October 2008

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Additional File 1:

cDNA library summary statistics. Sequencing statistics organized by cDNA library source for spruce expressed sequence tags.

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Full-length cDNA inventory. Predicted protein-coding features, annotation, and GenBank accession numbers for the Sitka spruce full-length cDNA collection.

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3'-end EST inventory. Detailed annotation and GenBank accession numbers for the complete set of spruce 3'-end ESTs.

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5'-end EST inventory. Detailed annotation and GenBank accession numbers for the complete set of spruce 5'-end ESTs.

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PUT inventory. Detailed annotation for the complete set of putative unique transcripts.

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Supplemental methods. Detailed methods for RNA isolation, full-length cDNA library construction, bacterial transformation with plasmids, clone handling, DNA purification and evaluation, and DNA sequencing.

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