Sea Urchin Genome Resources

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NCBI Web Resources:
 Global Query. Query all NCBI Entrez databases in one step.
Site Search. Search NCBI's Web sites and Ftp sites.
BLAST. Compare your sequence to sea urchin-specific sequences.
Entrez Gene. Focal point for genes and associated information.
Genome Project. Complete and in-progress large-scale sequencing, assembly, annotation and mapping projects.
MapViewer. Interactive viewer for genome maps,sequence, and genes.
PopSet. Sets of DNA sequences for analysis of evolutionary relatedness in a population.
RefSeq. Reference sequences of genomic contigs, mRNAs, and proteins.
Taxonomy. Taxonomy Browser hosts summaries of sequence resources and external links through NCBI's LinkOut.
Trace Archive. Collection
of raw sequence traces from various sequencing projects.
UniGene. Organization of transcribed sequences into gene-based clusters.
UniSTS. A non- redundant collection of STSs with links to maps and sequence.

FTP Sites:
Gene
Genomes
RefSeq
UniGene

Welcome to the Sea Urchin Genome Resources guide. This homepage brings together information on sea urchin genome resources from NCBI and the research community.
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sea urchin Photo courtesy of Andy Cameron

The purple sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) is an important model organism for developmental biology, embryology, and gene regulation studies. It represents the echinoderms, which are more closely related phylogenetically to mammals than fly or nematode.



















454 Sequence Data for S. franciscanus and A. fragilis at Baylor
The Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine has 454 sequencing data for Strongylocentrotus franciscanus and Allocentrotus fragilis available for BLAST searching.

The S. purpuratus genome assembly (build 2.1) is available in Map Viewer. Take a moment to BLAST your favorite gene sequence against the genome and explore the maps available for viewing. Learn more about the Gnomon gene prediction program and the resulting models available in Map Viewer.

NOTE: The previous assembly is still available for static display in Map Viewer as a Previous Build.


New in the last 90 days, for S. purpuratus:
New in the last 30 days, for all sea urchins:
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