Table 1.

ArrayIDer output description.

Column Name	Type of information
CLONE_NAME	EST clone name from array
NUCL_GB_ACC	GenBank nucleotide accession from clone sequence
SEQ_TYPE	mRNA or EST
UNIGENE_ID	Corresponding NCBI UniGene database identifier
GENE_SYMBOL	Gene symbol provided by NCBI
GENE_ID	NCBI Entrez gene identifier
PROT_GB_ACC	Corresponding NCBI Protein accession number(s)
PROT_GI_NO	Corresponding NCBI Protein GI number(s)
PEPT_ACC	Corresponding Peptide accession(s)
Retrieval DB	Database of additional retrieved protein accession (Swiss-Prot/TrEMBL; RefSEQ, ENSMBLE)
DB_ACC	Accession number(s) corresponding to Retrieval DB
IPI_ID	Corresponding IPI identifier(s)
UNIPROT_ACC	Corresponding UniProtKB accession(s)
ENSEMBL_ID	Corresponding ENSEMBL identifier(s)
UNIPARC_ID	Corresponding UniParc identifier(s)

The input information is indicated in bold text and the different types of information retrieved by ArrayIDer are shown. Identifiers can be used to cross-reference several other publicly available databases to retrieve additional information for genes of interest.