Creating a User-Friendly and Open-Access Gene Expression Database for Comparing Embryonic Development and Regeneration in Nematostella Vectensis

Overview

Journal Methods Mol Biol

Specialty Molecular Biology

Date 2022 Apr 1

PMID 35359334

Authors

Olivier Croce

Eric Rottinger

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Abstract

The sea anemone Nematostella vectensis has emerged as a powerful research model to understand at the gene regulatory network level, to what extend regeneration recapitulates embryonic development. Such comparison involves massive transcriptomic analysis, a routine approach for identifying differential gene expression. Here we present a workflow to build a user-friendly, mineable, and open-access database providing access to the scientific community to various RNAseq datasets.

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