The Arborea project is announcing the release of a gene catalogue for the conifer tree Picea glauca.

The gene catalogue, developed in collaboration with Gydle inc., integrates sequence data sets produced by Arborea (www.arborea.ca) and Treenomix (www.treenomix.ca), two large-scale Genome Canada projects. It is based on 272.172 EST sequences produced from 201.405 cDNA clones coming from 42 libraries. The catalogue, estimated to represent 27.720 different genes, contains the following entities:

• EST sequences, also available in the EST section of Genbank;
• Clone sequences, produced from EST sequences and representing transcript sequences in positive mRNA orientation;
• Clusters are groups of clones representing the same gene. Each cluster has a representative clone.

The full announcement can be downloaded in  English or in  French.

Please click here for more information: http://www.arborea.ulaval.ca/genecatalogue