Using an in silico approach simple sequence repeats (SSR) were identified using sequences from Tobacco Gene Indices. SSRs are defined as at least repeats of 10 mononucleotides, 6 dinucleotides, 5 trinucleotides, 5 tetranucleotides, 5 pentanucleotides, and 5 hexanucleotides. An overview of the approach can be found here and a summary of the results here.

• Summary of in-silico SSR search
  TIGR has established a pipeline to identify the potential SSRs from tobacco EST sequences using bioinformatics approach. Please click here to view the pipeline and the statistics of our result.


• Query TIGR Tobacco SSR Database
  The SSRs can be searched by motif, length, annotation and Genbank accession number.


• Available Downloads
  The sequences as well as the annotation and predicted primer sets of the TIGR Tobacco Simple Sequence Repeat Database are publicly available and can be downloaded.