DsTRD: Danshen Transcriptional Resource Database

PLoS One. 2016 Feb 24;11(2):e0149747. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0149747. eCollection 2016.

Abstract

Salvia miltiorrhiza has been comprehensively studied as a medicinal model plant. However, research progress on this species is significantly hindered by its unavailable genome sequences and limited number of expressed sequence tags in the National Center for Biotechnology Information database. Thus, a transcript database must be developed to assist researchers to browse, search, and align sequences for gene cloning and functional analysis in S. miltiorrhiza. In this study, the Danshen Transcriptional Resource Database (DsTRD) was built using 76,531 transcribed sequences assembled from 12 RNA-Seq transcriptomes. Among these 12 RNA-seq data, ten were downloaded from NCBI database. The remaining two were enced on the Hiseq2000 platform using the stem and hairy-root of S. miltiorrhiza. The transcripts were annotated as protein-coding RNAs, long non-coding RNAs, microRNA precursors, and phased secondary small-interfering RNA genes through several bioinformatics methods. The tissue expression levels for each transcript were also calculated and presented in terms of RNA-Seq data. Overall, DsTRD facilitates browsing and searching for sequences and functional annotations of S. miltiorrhiza. DsTRD is freely available at http://bi.sky.zstu.edu.cn/DsTRD/home.php.

Publication types

  • Dataset
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Databases, Nucleic Acid*
  • RNA, Plant / biosynthesis
  • RNA, Plant / genetics*
  • Salvia miltiorrhiza / genetics*
  • Salvia miltiorrhiza / metabolism
  • Transcription, Genetic*

Substances

  • RNA, Plant

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the 521 Talent Foundation of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, the website is http://www.zstu.edu.cn/. This work was supported by the Doctoral Scientific Research Foundation of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, the website is http://www.zstu.edu.cn/. This work was supported by the grants of the Natural Science Foundation of China (grant No. 81373908 and 81403033), and the website is http://isisn.nsfc.gov.cn/. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.