January 29, 2008
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Jason Phillips Vision Lab UNC-Chapel Hill

Mimulus guttatus intron flanking primers:

From this directory you will be able to navigate to predicted intron flanking
primers based on Mimulus guttatus unigenes and Arabidopsis thaliana putative
intron/exon positional data.  These primers have been used for creating STS
markers which aid the biologist in creating a genetic map of the Mimulus
guttatus genome.

Over the course of this project we have used a couple different naming schemes
for the unigenes (or contigs) in these tab delimited excel friendly files.  The
database assigns each contig a unique numeric id.  Since each build uses the
same ESTs as the previous in addition to the latest ones and lots of contigs
essentially don't change we introduced a naming convention which is not seen in
these files until build 6.  You'll notice that the contigs are referred to by a
Contig_id for builds less than 6.  Starting with build 6 we use the MgUxx id
which has a little more intuitive meaning built into it (M = Mimulus, g =
guttatus, U = unigene, xx = some numeric id).  If you are specifically working
with the MgU names then I have provided a cross reference file in this
directory called Mimulus_guttatus_name_xref.txt.  This file contains the
Contig_id and Contig_name lookup if you need to correlate these id's found in
the primer files with the actual name.