Title
ASPIC: a web resource for alternative splicing prediction and transcript isoforms characterization.
Abstract
Alternative splicing ( AS) is now emerging as a major mechanism contributing to the expansion of the transcriptome and proteome complexity of multicellular organisms. The fact that a single gene locus may give rise to multiple mRNAs and protein isoforms, showing both major and subtle structural variations, is an exceptionally versatile tool in the optimization of the coding capacity of the eukaryotic genome. The huge and continuously increasing number of genome and transcript sequences provides an essential information source for the computational detection of genes AS pattern. However, much of this information is not optimally or comprehensively used in gene annotation by current genome annotation pipelines. We present here a web resource implementing the ASPIC algorithm which we developed previously for the investigation of AS of user submitted genes, based on comparative analysis of available transcript and genome data from a variety of species. The ASPIC web resource provides graphical and tabular views of the splicing patterns of all full-length mRNA isoforms compatible with the detected splice sites of genes under investigation as well as relevant structural and functional annotation. The ASPIC web resource available at http://www.caspur.it/ASPIC/- is dynamically interconnected with the Ensembl and Unigene databases and also implements an upload facility.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1093/nar/gkl324
NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Keywords
DocType
Volume
sequence alignment,genomics,comparative analysis,algorithms,alternative splicing,heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoproteins,internet,genome annotation,introns
Journal
34
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
Web Server issue
0305-1048
11
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.83
6
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tiziana Castrignanò110310.37
Raffaella Rizzi213013.58
Ivano Giuseppe Talamo3302.50
Paolo D'onorio De Meo4848.28
Anna Anselmo5110.83
Paola Bonizzoni650252.23
Graziano Pesole7942107.35