Ahsan Budrul, Saito Taro L, Hashimoto Shin-ichi, Muramatsu Keigo, Tsuda Manabu, Sasaki Atsushi, Matsushima Kouji, Aigaki Toshiro, Morishita Shinichi
Department of Computational Biology, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa 277-0882, Japan.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2009 Jan;37(Database issue):D49-53. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkn694. Epub 2008 Oct 8.
MachiBase (http://machibase.gi.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/) provides a comprehensive and freely accessible resource regarding Drosophila melanogaster 5'-end mRNA transcription at different developmental states, supporting studies on the variabilities of promoter transcriptional activities and gene-expression profiles in the fruitfly. The data were generated in conjunction with the recently developed high-throughput genome sequencer Illumina/Solexa using a newly developed 5'-end mRNA collection method.