SeqViewer Release Notes

TAIR's SeqViewer lets you view and search the whole Arabidopsis genome with associated annotations down to the nucleotide level. As with the MapViewer, each map element hyperlinks to a detail page from the TAIR database. The Seqviewer Introduction is a detailed help page on what is available and how to navigate SeqViewer.

November 2012 Release

The SeqViewer now runs as a separate web application rather than as a tool embedded in the TAIR web site. The SeqViewer home page no longer contains the full TAIR web site menus. Please click on the TAIR icon to go to the TAIR web site. The SeqViewer is no longer being enhanced by TAIR. You may also find the GBrowse tool useful.

June 2003 Release

The SeqViewer bas been updated to display the TIGR 4.0 version of the Arabidopsis genome. A T-DNA/Tn band has also been added.

Note on Annotation Units

The SeqViewer is now displaying an annotation unit band to more accurately reflect the data used to construct the map. Annotation units are clone sequences that were artificially extended by adding neighboring clone sequences to facilitate annotation of genes in the overlap regions. Annotation units are named after the clone that contributed the most sequence. An annotation unit detail page containing a sequence link is hyperlinked to each annotation unit shown on the map. From this detail page the user can click on the clone name to go to the corresponding clone detail page linked to the original GenBank clone sequence and clone ordering information. We made this change to avoid misleading users about which clone in an overlap region contains a particular gene. To verify that a gene is present on a clone before ordering it, try a BLAST search using your gene of interest as the query sequence against the GenBank AGI BAC Sequences dataset and make sure your gene matches to the clone you plan to order (it may be present on two overlapping TIGR clone sequences due to the artificial extension of the sequence but only appear on one of the two GenBank clone sequences).

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