Nematode.net: a tool for navigating sequences from parasitic and free-living nematodes

Nematode.net (www.nematode.net) is a web- accessible resource for investigating gene sequen- ces from nematode genomes. The database is an outgrowth of the parasitic nematode EST project at Washington University's Genome Sequencing Center (GSC), St Louis. A sister project at the University of Edinburgh and the Sanger Institute is also underway. More than 295 000 ESTs have been generated from >30 nematodes other than Caenorhabditis elegans including key parasites of humans, animals and plants. Nematode.net currently provides NemaGene EST cluster consensus sequence, enhanced online BLAST search tools, functional classi®cations of cluster sequences and comprehensive information concerning the ongoing generation of nematode genome data. The long-term goal of nematode.net is to provide the scienti®c community with the highest quality sequence information and tools for studying these diverse species