Transcriptome Shotgun Assembly (TSA) Sequence Database and Submissions

TSA is an archive of computationally assembled transcript sequences from primary data such as ESTs and Next Generation Sequencing Technologies. The overlapping sequence reads from a complete transcriptome are assembled into transcripts by computational methods instead of by traditional cloning and sequencing of cloned cDNAs. The primary sequence data used in the assemblies must have been experimentally determined by the same submitter. TSA sequence records differ from GenBank records because there are no physical counterparts to the assemblies.