UniGene Adds Four

Four new organisms are now represented in the UniGene collection of gene-oriented transcript sequences; Toxoplasma gondii with 3,106 clusters, Saccharum officinarum (noble cane)with 5,197 clusters, Schistosoma mansoni (the blood fluke) with 1,170 clusters, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus (the purple sea urchin) with 2,592 clusters, and Physcomitrella patens (physcomitrella moss) with 6,927 clusters. UniGene clusters are created at NCBI for all organisms represented in GenBank with more than 70,000 Expressed Sequence Tag sequences. UniGene now covers over 30 animals and plants and can be searched using the Entrez search system where it is linked to nucleotide records.