TSA

TSA is an archive of computationally assembled sequences from primary data such as ESTs, traces and Next Generation Sequencing Technologies. The overlapping sequence reads from a complete transcriptome are assembled into transcripts by computational methods instead of by traditional cloning and sequencing of cloned cDNAs. The primary sequence data used in the assemblies must have been experimentally determined by the same submitter. TSA sequence records differ from EST and GenBank records because there are no physical counterparts to the assemblies. For more information about TSA see www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/TSA.html