What is a Transcriptome Shotgun Assembly (TSA) Sequence?
TSA is an archive of computationally assembled sequences from primary data submitted to dbEST, the Short Read Archive (SRA), or the Trace Archive. 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 and the assemblies must be submitted by the same submitter. TSA sequence records differ from EST and GenBank records because there are no physical counterparts to the assemblies asserted in the TSA record.
