摘要
Since pig is an important livestock species worldwide, its gene expressionhas been investigated intensively, but rarely in brain. In order to study gene expression profilesin the pig central nervous system, we sequenced and analyzed 43,122 high-quality 5'' end expressedsequence tags (ESTs) from porcine cerebellum, cortex cerebrum, and brain stem cDNA libraries,involving several different prenatal and postnatal developmental stages. The initial ESTs wereassembled into 16,101 clusters and compared to protein and nucleic acid databases in GenBank. Ofthese sequences, 30.6% clusters matched protein databases and represented function known sequences;75.1% had significant hits to nucleic acid databases and partial represented known function; 73.3%matched known porcine ESTs; and 21.5% had no matches to any known sequences in GenBank. We used thecategories defined by the Gene Ontology to survey gene expression in the porcine brain.
Since pig is an important livestock species worldwide, its gene expressionhas been investigated intensively, but rarely in brain. In order to study gene expression profilesin the pig central nervous system, we sequenced and analyzed 43,122 high-quality 5'' end expressedsequence tags (ESTs) from porcine cerebellum, cortex cerebrum, and brain stem cDNA libraries,involving several different prenatal and postnatal developmental stages. The initial ESTs wereassembled into 16,101 clusters and compared to protein and nucleic acid databases in GenBank. Ofthese sequences, 30.6% clusters matched protein databases and represented function known sequences;75.1% had significant hits to nucleic acid databases and partial represented known function; 73.3%matched known porcine ESTs; and 21.5% had no matches to any known sequences in GenBank. We used thecategories defined by the Gene Ontology to survey gene expression in the porcine brain.
基金
This work was supported by the National High-Tech Research and Development Program of China (No.2002AA229061)the Major Knowledge Innovation Programs of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No.KSCX1-01).
