UniSTS is a comprehensive database of sequence tagged sites (STSs) derived from STS-based maps and other experiments. STSs are defined by PCR primer pairs and are associated with additional information such as genomic position, genes, and sequences.

Summary of Maps in UniSTS

	Organism Total Total     Map name Map title markers UniSTSs1 Links2 Apis mellifera Hunt Hunt Honeybee Linkage Map 3_10_04 1,055 38         Solignac Solignac Genetic Map 1,096 688       Bos taurus ILTX-2004 5000 Rad Cattle RH Map - 2004 1,912 1,858     MARC MARC Bovine Linkage Map 1,419 1,386   Canis familiaris RHDF5000 Canine 1Mb RH Map 3,092 3,037   Danio rerio GAT Gates Haploid Panel 422 246   HS Heat Shock Diploid Cross 6,017 722   LN54 Loeb/NIH/5000/4000 4,595 817   MGH Boston MGH Cross 3,855 3,425   MOP Mother of Pearl 713 347   T51 Goodfellow T51 15,306 2,019   ZMAP Zebrafish Genome Integrated Map 25,920 5,081     Felis catus Genetic Genetic linkage map of the domestic cat 328 320   RH Domestic cat radiation hybrid map 1,126 1,118   Gallus gallus WURC Wageningen University chicken linkage map 2,110 973     Homo sapiens GM99-G3 Human Transcript Map 99 7,056 7,056     GM99-GB4 Human Transcript Map 99 45,138 45,138     Genethon Genethon Human Linkage Map, 1995 release 5,264 5,264     Marshfield Marshfield human genetic map 7,698 7,698   NCBI RH Computed integrated panel map 23,727 23,727   NHGRI-7 NHGRI chr 7 physical map 2,117 2,117     SHGC-G3 Stanford G3 Map 7,198 7,198     TNG Stanford TNG RH Map 36,634 36,634   WI-RH Whitehead RH Map, July 1997 release 14,658 14,658   WI-YAC Whitehead STS Map, July 1997 release 10,469 10,469   WUSTL-X WashU Chr. X STS Map 1,664 1,664       deCODE deCODE high resolution genetic map 5,135 5,013   Mus musculus MGI Mouse Genome Database genetic map 15,563 15,563     WI-Genetic Whitehead Mouse Genetic Map 6,536 6,536   WI-YAC Whitehead Mouse YAC Map 7,578 7,578   WI/MRC RH Whitehead-MRC RH Mouse Map v12 14,158 14,158     Ovis aries CAB CAB Ovine Linkage Map 883 883   SM4.2 SheepMap v4.2 linkage map 1,265 1,110   Plasmodium falciparum NIAID NIAID Genetic Map 846 846   Rattus norvegicus FHH x ACI.7 Rat FHH x ACI F2 intercross genetic map 686 684     RH map.3.4 Rat radiation hybrid map 24,328 24,327   SHRSP x BN.7 Rat SHRSP x BN F2 intercross genetic map 2,025 2,021     Sus scrofa MARC MARC Porcine Linkage Map 1,283 1,283
	1Among markers mapped in the map, a subset of markers that are STSs and with available primer sequences were imported to UniSTS. 2 PubMed, MapViewer, data source.
	Last Updated October 26, 2004

Data Sources
	In addition to submitted maps, UniSTS data has been obtained from the following sources. GenBank STS division (dbSTS) Radiation Hybrid Database (RHdb) Genome Database (GDB) Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI) Rat Genome Database (RGD) Zebrafish Information Network (ZFIN) PubMed Central Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE)