Table 1.

Functionalities of the EPConDB web site

Expression

Gene expression profiles

Lists of differentially expressed genes

Database queries

Find a transcript or gene using

Gene name or symbol, accession or RefSeq, Entrez Gene id, MGIa Gene id, IMAGEb clone id

Find transcripts or genes expressed in tissues

Transcription factor expression

Q-value tissue expression

Up-regulated expression, down-regulated expression, EST expression profile

Find genes by transcriptional regulation

Predicted transcription factor target genes

Find transcripts or genes associated with the BCBC PancChips/PromoterChips using

RefSeq, Entrez Gene id, Array Element id

Find transcripts by chromosomal location

BLAT alignment, diabetes candidate region

Find transcripts by annotation

GO functions, Gene trap insertions, signal peptide, transmembrane domains

Query history/my transcripts

Displays the queries performed by the user and the results

User can combine query results

Analysis and tools

BLAST

Genome Browser

T1DBase GBrowse

Binding site collection query

Locate specific arrangements of transcription factor binding sites in promoter regions

Reportmaker

Create and download a file containing query results

Downloads

BCBC Chip annotations and protocols

Expression data from studies

List of novel cDNA clones

EPConDB tutorial

^aMouse Genome Informatics (http://www.informatics.jax.org/).

^bIntegrated Molecular Analysis of Genomes and their Expression (http://image.llnl.gov/).