Genome Biology 2004-01-01

A genome annotation-driven approach to cloning the human ORFeome.

John E Collins, Charmain L Wright, Carol A Edwards, Matthew P Davis, James A Grinham, Charlotte G Cole, Melanie E Goward, Begoña Aguado, Meera Mallya, Younes Mokrab, Elizabeth J Huckle, David M Beare, Ian Dunham

Index: Genome Biol. 5(10) , R84, (2004)

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Abstract

We have developed a systematic approach to generating cDNA clones containing full-length open reading frames (ORFs), exploiting knowledge of gene structure from genomic sequence. Each ORF was amplified by PCR from a pool of primary cDNAs, cloned and confirmed by sequencing. We obtained clones representing 70% of genes on human chromosome 22, whereas searching available cDNA clone collections found at best 48% from a single collection and 60% for all collections combined.