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TRABAS: a database for transcription regulation by ABA signaling

Ananyo Choudhury* and Ansuman Lahiri

Department of Biophysics, Molecular Biology & Bioinformatics, University of Calcutta, 92, APC Road, Kolkata 700009, India

* Corresponding authors
   Email: ananyo.c@gmail.com



Edited by E. Wingender; received March 29, 2008; revised July 22 and August 19, 2008; accepted August 24, 2008; published September 07, 2008

Abstract

The effects of abscisic acid (ABA) induction on Arabidopsis thaliana transcriptome have been investigated by various expression studies. We have assembled and analyzed data from available expression studies related to ABA signaling in Arabidopsis along with other available microarray data, functional annotations and information related to occurrence of cis-regulatory elements in promoters of Arabidopsis genes in a database called TRABAS. TRABAS is expected to provide a simple, user-friendly platform to facilitate the study of different aspects of ABA mediated transcription regulation and is freely available at http://www.bioinformatics.org/trabas/.

Keywords: ABA signaling, expression profile, cis-regulatory element, gene ontology