In July 2019, we will retire the UniGene database and take down the web interface. UniGene was originally implemented as a gene-oriented grouping of transcript sequences in the absence of a reference genome for a broad range of organisms. We added genome-based grouping later. UniGene has since been used as a source of approximate expression profiles, an index of available cDNA clones, and as a gui
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