Hello.

The Songbird Transcriptome has recently been updated to include ESTs from the ESTIMA and Rockefeller groups. Libraries 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, and 106 are from the Rockefeller sequencing project. Libraries 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, and 206 are from the ESTIMA sequencing project.

This is a database containing cDNA clone information of the brains of songbirds. These clones are annotated with behavioral information, as well as links to information of homologous genes of other species. The first publicly accessible version of the database was on 12/5/2002 . As of 2004, the database includes over 14,000 full-length zebra finch brain cDNAs obtained from normalized and subtracted cDNA libraries. The project is a collaborative effort of the Jarvis Laboratory of Duke University, Duke Bioinformatics, and The Genomics group of RIKEN, with Erich D. Jarvis as P.I. and Kazuhiro Wada as Co-P.I. Please feel free to browse around, and be careful about singing like a songbird.

Microarrays with the cDNAs in this database are available at Duke http://mgm.duke.edu/genome/dna_micro/core/spotted.htm and through the NIH Neurosciences Microarray Consortium http://arrayconsortium.tgen.org/np2/public/overview.jsp

Zebra Finch Male (back) and Female (front)
Photo by Lubica Kubikova

Other zebra finch projects:

• The Songbird Neurogenomics Initiative by David Clayton et al.