Phytophthora Soybean EST Database

Phytophthora, Soybean ESTs

Phytophthora species are stramenopiles, and belong to a kingdom distinct from plants, fungi, and animals that also includes diatoms and brown algae.

Phytophthora species attack almost all dicot plants, including agricultural crops and trees and shrubs of native ecosystems. The oomycete plant pathogen P. sojae has been targeted as a model species for the genus since excellent genetic and genomics resources already exist for this species, including DNA transformation, a 13X BAC library, and a large collection of ESTs.

Currently in this database we have placed 10 libraries from P.sojae(sHA,sHB,sMA,sML,sMY,sMC,sZG,sZO,sZS,iMY) having 33350 raw sequences. Please check our statistics page for details of the cleaning, clustering data. Additionally, there are 99,320 EST sequences from P.infestans from NCBI. For P.infestans sequences cleaning information is not available. These sequences are clustered and assembled and data analysis was performed by us. We have separated Soybean ESTs from P.sojae libraries using insillico methods. The soybean libraries are named as gHA and gHB based on their origin from sHA or sHB.

Recently all publicly avaialble soybean unigenes(37,465) are added to this database. For public soybean sequences we did not perform any cleaning or assembly. The unigenes were annotated prior to storing. The whole dataset had interproscan and signalP analysis. The Phytophthora sequences are linked to the genome browser.