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expressed sequence tags (ESTs)

mRNA sequence fragments obtained by single sequencing reactions performed on randomly selected clones from cDNA libraries. EST sequences usually does not contain full length gene sequences since about 600 bp sequences are generated from the 5′ and 3′ end of cDNA clones.