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Expressed Sequence Tags database

Also known as dbEST · NCBI EST

dbEST is a division of GenBank that contains sequence data and other information on "single-pass" cDNA sequences, or "Expressed Sequence Tags", from a number of organisms. Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) are short (usually about 300-500 bp), single-pass sequence reads from mRNA (cDNA). Typically they are produced in large batches. They represent a snapshot of genes expressed in a given tissue and/or at a given developmental stage. They are tags (some coding, others not) of expression for a given cDNA library. Most EST projects develop large numbers of sequences. These are commonly submitted to GenBank and dbEST as batches of dozens to thousands of entries, with a great deal of redundancy in…

Getting access

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How to apply
Not yet verified — we don’t publish a route we haven’t checked.

Summarised from a registry — the exact application route is not yet verified.

About this database

Websitehttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/dbest/
SubjectsLife Sciences · Biology · Medicine · Basic Biological and Medical Research · Plant Sciences · Zoology · Medicine · General Genetics · Bioinformatics and Theoretical Biology · Plant Genetics · Animal Genetics, Cell and Developmental Biology · Human Genetics
Last updated2026-09-28

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