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SoyBase and the Soybean Breeder's Toolbox
Integrating Genetics and Molecular Biology for Soybean Researchers


Welcome to the SoyBase Soybean EST Search Page


Last Database Update November, 2006

This page provides querying tools for the soybean EST collection. When there is a choice of output formats, choosing HTML will return the data formatted for display in your browser while TEXT returns the data in a tab-delimited form that can be copied to the clipboard or saved to your computer.

Perform a text search of the EST Library annotations

This search will return a list of the EST Libraries whose annotation matches the search term(s).
Examples of valid search strings are:
      - young AND cotyledon
      - leaf OR meristem
      - leaf AND meristem BUTNOT flower
      - leaf AND (meristem OR flower)

Search text:

Select output format

Choosing HTML output will show a page of the ESTs found with hyperlinks to the Genbank records. To generate a page of tab-delimited results ready for saving to your computer choose the TEXT option.

    HTML     TEXT

Perform a text search of the EST annotations

This search will return a list of the ESTs whose annotation matches the search term(s).

Search text:

The scope of the search can be controlled by changing the default options below. Note that the choices for cultivar are only relevant when the search is restricted to Glycine max.

Glycine max Glycine soja     both G. max and G. soja
      Williams/Williams 82
      not Williams/Williams 82
      any cultivar

Select output format

Choosing HTML output will show a page of the ESTs found with hyperlinks to the Genbank records. The TEXT option will return a page of tab-delimited results suitable for importing into a database program such as Excel while the FASTA option returns a page of results ready for use in a sequence analysis program. In either case the browser's Save command (Mac: Save As... or Cmd-S, Windows: Save As... or cntl-S) will save the results to a file on your computer.

    HTML     TEXT     FASTtA

Find a sequence by it's Genbank accession number

Accession Number:

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