Research work · 2006
UniGene Tabulator: a full parser for the UniGene format
Luca Lenzi, Flavia Frabetti, Federica Facchin, Raffaella Casadei, Lorenza Vitale, Silvia Canaider, Paolo Carinci, Maria Zannotti, Pierluigi Strippoli
Bioinformatics
Abstract
Abstract Summary: UniGene Tabulator 1.0 provides a solution for full parsing of UniGene flat file format; it implements a structured graphical representation of each data field present in UniGene following import into a common database managing system usable in a personal computer. This database includes related tables for sequence, protein similarity, sequence-tagged site (STS) and transcript map interval (TXMAP) data, plus a summary table where each record represents a UniGene cluster. UniGene Tabulator enables full local management of UniGene data, allowing parsing, querying, indexing, retrieving, exporting and analysis of UniGene data in a relational database form, usable on Macintosh (OS X 10.3.9 or later) and Windows (2000, with service pack 4, XP, with service pack 2 or later) operating systems-based computers. Availability: The current release, including both the FileMaker runtime applications, is freely available at Contact: [email protected] Supplementary information: We also distribute a precalculated implementation for current Homo sapiens (build #190, March 2006) and Danio rerio (zebrafish, build #90, March 2006) UniGene data.