We would like to thank Dr. Jeff Shrager from the Carnegie Institute of Washington and Dr. Erika Asamizu from Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Japan for providing us the raw EST trace files as well as cDNA library construction information. We thank Dr. Erika Lindquist from JGI who makes their final EST sequences available for public download. We greatly appreciate Dr. Olivier Vallon from Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, France for sending us their ACEG (assembly of contiguous ESTs based on genome) data and giving lots of suggestions to improve our system. Special thanks also go to Dr. Jeff Dean from the University of Georgia and Mr. Lin Fang from Beijing Genomics Institute for helpful discussions. This work is supported by the new faculty start-up grant and CACR Small Grants from Miami University to Dr. Chun Liang, and partially by OPBC (Ohio Plant Biotechnology Consortium) Award No.401384 to Drs. Quinn Li and Chun Liang. |
