Xenbase Release Notes

Release 2.5.5

• Search for clones via Gene symbol, NCBI accession, library name or clone name.
• Search for gene expression patterns by sequence.
• Search literature by Granting Agency or Grant Number
• New Xenbase cDNA library pages accessible through clone pages and gene expression search results
• Filter out ubiquitously expressed genes from gene expression search results
• Include Anatomical successor and predessor tissues in gene expression searches involving anatomy terms

Release 2.5

• Search Expression Patterns: Search Xenopus expression patterns by gene symbol, developmental stages, anatomical structures and experimenters
• Search gene pages by NCBI sequence accession for mRNA, EST and protein.

Release 2.4

• Search 'All': Search all of Xenbase from the minibar at the top of the screen
• Search suggestion ability added to mini bar for searches in: gene, person, lab, organization, authors and titles
• Expanded and updated Stockcenter for searching Xenopus frog lines
• Faster BLAST searches and new search databases added
• Faster gene 'Search All' searches
• Search genes by Affymetrix probe ID
• Ensembl models listed in gene pages and gBrowse
• Gene page link to literature referencing 'morpholinos'
• Gene expression images from AxelDB now available in the 'Expression' tab on gene pages
• Added thousands of expression images from community labs: Zorn lab, Papalopulu lab
• Over one thousand additional expression images automatically curated from literature sources

Release 2.3.1

• Gene page interactants tab added. This tab lists genes that are co-cited in the literature for a gene of interest.
• JGI Xentr4.1 filtered model transcript and protein databases are now available at the Xenbase blast site.

Release 2.3

• Animal lines section added. This section provides information on frog lines currently carried by the European Xenopus Resource Center (EXRC).

Release 2.2

• Gene pages are being populated with archetypal image(s) of gene expression patterns
• New Expression tab on Gene pages
  • in situ images from XDB3 (presence of images is indicated by an icon on the Expression tab). Axeldb and community submitted images available soon.
  • Anatomy terms and stages (expression data derived from EST/cDNA library representation). This is available for most genes even when they lack images.
• UniProt Knowledgebase links (alternative splicing information, protein domains and much more)
• Microarray data from GEO - view array data where the gene of interest displays differential expression
• Affymetrix probe sets for both trop and laevis
• Gene search
  • Select number of results per page
• Literature section
  • Publications with figures are flagged with a small icon. Load the paper to see the abstract, figures and legends, or click on the icon to see only the figures and legends.

Release 2.1

• Dramatically faster gene search and gene pages
• Literature tab added to gene page
• In-line links from article abstracts, titles and image captions to gene pages
• Improved gene search
  • Now search shows how results were found
  • New search by gene function

Release 2.01

• Addition of 7,600 + Metazome-curated gene models.