Barbara Lazzari

The Human EST Ontology Explorer: a tissue-oriented visualization system for ontologies distribution in human EST collections (2009)

Merelli, Ivan, Caprera, Andrea, Stella, Alessandra, Del Corvo, Marcello, Milanesi, Luciano, Lazzari, Barbara

Abstract Background The NCBI dbEST currently contains more than eight million human Expressed Sequenced Tags (ESTs). This wide collection represents an important source of information for gene...

Ontology-oriented retrieval of putative microRNAs in Vitis viniferavia GrapeMiRNA: a web database of de novopredicted grape microRNAs (2009)

Lazzari, Barbara, Caprera, Andrea, Cestaro, Alessandro, Merelli, Ivan, Del Corvo, Marcello, Fontana, Paolo, ...

Abstract Background Two complete genome sequences are available for Vitis vinifera Pinot noir. Based on the sequence and gene predictions produced by the IASMA, we performed an in silico detection of...

Ontology-based, Tissue MicroArray oriented, image centered tissue bank (2008)

Viti, Federica, Merelli, Ivan, Caprera, Andrea, Lazzari, Barbara, Stella, Alessandra, Milanesi, Luciano

Abstract Background Tissue MicroArray technique is becoming increasingly important in pathology for the validation of experimental data from transcriptomic analysis. This approach produces many...

BIOINFORMATICS APPLICATIONS NOTE doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btm063 Databases and ontologies GoSh: a web-based database for goat and sheep EST sequences (2008)

Andrea Caprera, Barbara Lazzari, Ra Stella, Ivan Merelli, Re R. Caetano, Paola Mariani

Summary: The GoSh database is a collection of 58 990 Capra hircus and Ovis aries expressed sequence tags. A perl pipeline was prepared to process sequences, and data were collected in a MySQL...

Version VI of the ESTree db: an improved tool for peach transcriptome analysis (2008)

Lazzari, Barbara, Caprera, Andrea, Vecchietti, Alberto, Merelli, Ivan, Barale, Francesca, Milanesi, Luciano, ...

Abstract Background The ESTree database (db) is a collection of Prunus persica and Prunus dulcis EST sequences that in its current version encompasses 75,404 sequences from 3 almond and 19 peach...

Mining the Bovine Genome with the "Bovine SNP Retriever" (2008)

Panzitta, Francesca, Caprera, Andrea, Merelli, Ivan, Milanesi, Luciano, Williams, John L., Lazzari, Barbara, ...

Online resources for the bovine genome analysis are provided at the most important Web sites. Nonetheless, retrieval of single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)–related information is not always easy...

GoSh: a web-based database for goat and sheep EST sequences (2007)

Caprera, Andrea, Lazzari, Barbara, Stella, Alessandra, Merelli, Ivan, Caetano, Alexandre R., Mariani, Paola

Summary: The GoSh database is a collection of 58 990 Capra hircus and Ovis aries expressed sequence tags. A perl pipeline was prepared to process sequences, and data were collected in a MySQL...

ESTuber db: an online database for Tuber borchiiEST sequences (2007)

Lazzari, Barbara, Caprera, Andrea, Cosentino, Cristian, Stella, Alessandra, Milanesi, Luciano, Viotti, Angelo

Abstract Background The ESTuber database ( http://www.itb.cnr.it/estuber ) includes 3,271 Tuber borchii expressed sequence tags (EST). The dataset consists of 2,389 sequences from an in-house...

ESTree db: a Tool for Peach Functional Genomics (2005)

Lazzari, Barbara, Caprera, Andrea, Vecchietti, Alberto, Stella, Alessandra, Milanesi, Luciano, Pozzi, Carlo

Abstract Background The ESTree db http://www.itb.cnr.it/estree/ represents a collection of Prunus persica expressed sequenced tags (ESTs) and is intended as a resource for peach functional genomics....

ESTree db: a tool for peach functional genomics (2005)

Barbara Lazzari, Luciano Milanesi, Ra Stella, Andrea Caprera, Francesca Bianchi, Carlo Pozzi

A collection of about 8000 Expressed Sequence Tags (EST) sequences has been prepared starting from clones belonging to four cDNA peach libraries. Libraries have been prepared from Prunus persica...

Specific Combinations of Zein Genes and Genetic Backgrounds Influence the Transcription of the Heavy-Chain Zein Genes in Maize opaque-2 Endosperms1

Ciceri, Pietro, Castelli, Silvana, Lauria, Massimiliano, Lazzari, Barbara, Genga, Annamaria, Bernard, Loris, ...

The transcript levels of heavy-chain zein genes (zH1 and zH2) and the occurrence of the zH polypeptides in different opaque-2 (o2) lines were investigated by RNA-blot analyses and by sodium...

Specific Combinations of Zein Genes and Genetic Backgrounds Influence the Transcription of the Heavy-Chain Zein Genes in Maize opaque-2 Endosperms1

Ciceri, Pietro, Castelli, Silvana, Lauria, Massimiliano, Lazzari, Barbara, Genga, Annamaria, Bernard, Loris, ...

The transcript levels of heavy-chain zein genes (zH1 and zH2) and the occurrence of the zH polypeptides in different opaque-2 (o2) lines were investigated by RNA-blot analyses and by sodium...

Wild-Type Opaque2 and Defective opaque2 Polypeptides Form Complexes in Maize Endosperm Cells and Bind the Opaque2-Zein Target Site1[OA]

Gavazzi, Floriana, Lazzari, Barbara, Ciceri, Pietro, Gianazza, Elisabetta, Viotti, Angelo

The Opaque2 (O2) basic leucine (Leu)-zipper transcriptional activator controls the expression of several genes in maize (Zea mays). We investigated the phosphorylation extent of wild-type O2 and...