Mining for Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Expressed Sequence Tags

Abstract

Marine Genomics Europe (MGE) is a European Network of Excellence for the implementation of high-throughput genomic approaches in the biology of marine organisms. Three different genomic aspects are addressed: functional, comparative and environmental genomics. European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) is one of the model organisms studied within MGE. Sequencing of Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) from 14 tissue cDNA libraries was carried out to support the different genomic research sections. The EST information can be used to assess various genomic characteristics, such as the discovery of genomic polymorphisms.