TassDB2 - A comprehensive database of subtle alternative splicing events

Background: Subtle alternative splicing events involving tandem splice sites separated by a short (2-12 nucleotides) distance are frequent and evolutionarily widespread in eukaryotes, and a major contributor to the complexity of transcriptomes and proteomes. However, these events have been either omitted altogether in databases on alternative splicing, or only the cases of experimentally confirmed alternative splicing have been reported. Thus, a database which covers all confirmed cases of subtle alternative splicing as well as the numerous putative tandem splice sites (which might be confirmed once more transcript data becomes available), and allows to search for tandem splice sites with specific features and download the results, is a valuable resource for targeted experimental studies and large-scale bioinformatics analyses of tandem splice sites. Towards this goal we recently set up TassDB (Tandem Splice Site DataBase, version 1), which stores data about alternative splicing event...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: BMCBI
• Authors: Rileen Sinha, Thorsten Lenser, Niels Jahn, Ulrike Gausmann, Swetlana Friedel, Karol Szafranski, Klaus Huse, Philip Rosenstiel, Jochen Hampe, Stefan Schuster, Michael Hiller, Rolf Backofen, Matthias Platzer
• Keywords: BMCBI 2010, Splice Site, Tandem Splice, Tandem Splice Site