EeelBase 2.0 is new version of EeelBase. It is based on a completely new assembly obtained from 640,040 reads. The original version of Eeelbase EeelBase reports results of the first European eel transcriptome sequencing and analysis. EeelBase entries are centred on contig sequence and annotation. The database is searchable by contig ID, key words and BLAST.

Database entry description. For each contig, a gene-like entry reports the following data sections:

• Contig information (ID, description and FASTA sequence)
• Functional annotation (GO terms)
• Zebrafish genome match in the UCSC Genome Browser
• Stickleback genome match in the UCSC Genome Browser
• BLAST results (BLASTX againnst nr and UniProt/SwissProt, BLASTN against nt)): Description and Alignments
• Putative miRNAs, linked to miRBase

Example contig: http://compgen.bio.unipd.it/eeelbase/contig/eu2_c6/

The database is searchable by keywords or BLAST against contig sequences; massive and customized data retrival is allowed by the query system.

EeelBase is an open project developed by the Computational Genomics Laboratory and the Molecular Ecology Group of the University of Padova.
It is intended to be a public and expandable resource provided to the scientific community. It is the first acquirement of Anguilla Genomics Consortium (AGC). Current AGC partners are:

• University of Padova, Italy (Lorenzo Zane)
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (Gregory Maes)
• University of Laval, Canada (Louis Bernatchez)
• Aarhus University Denmark (Michael M. Hansen)
• University of St Andrews Scotland, UK (Gordon Cramb)
• University of Algarve Portugal (Adelino V.M. Canario )
• University of Algarve Portugal (Mar Huertas)

New data contributions are welcome.
Please cite:Sequencing, de novo annotation and analysis of the first Anguilla anguilla transcriptome: EeelBase opens new perspectives for the study of the criticaly endangered European eel. Alessandro Coppe, Jose Martin Pujolar, Gregory E Maes, Peter F Larsen, Michael M Hansen, Louis Bernatchez, Lorenzo Zane, Stefania Bortoluzzi BMC Genomics 2010, 11:635