Gilchrist Group

Databases & Search Engines

These applications have been developed by Mike Gilchrist and others at the the Francis Crick Institute, previously NIMR, and previously at the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge, supported by the Wellcome Trust.

Xenopus full-length clone database, and other EST resources, based on EST clustering and alignment with the geneDistiller algorithm. Other species include: Caenorhabditis elegans, Ciona intestinalis and Dictyostelium discoideum .

Database of gene expression profiles for Xenopus tropicalis .

In situ gene expression image database, with image localisation, and data retrievable by expression pattern as well as gene.

Database search engines for retrieval of gene data (images, literature, names) on the basis of sequence similarity.