TPIA Search Engine

All the search options listed below are used to systemtically search information within the Tea Plant Information Archive (TPIA).

Basic Searches

(Use gene locus identifier to directly search its relative information in TPIA. Example: 'TEA027081.1')

(Use a keyword to simultaneously search information in TPIA. Examples: 'caffeine', 'MYB', 'PAL', 'Xia EH')

Advanced Searches
Step 1: Select species (Required)
- Select a species to limit search results
Step 2: Select gene feature (Required)

- Select one or more feature types

Protein-coding gene
snoRNA
snRNA
tRNA
rRNA
ncRNA
Transcription factor
Single exon locus
Multi-exons locus
Step 3: Narrow results (Optional)

- Select search criteria to return specific types of genes. Results will match all selected criteria. - Select search criteria by clicking on a checkbox, filling in a dialog box, or selecting a menu option. - Select or unselect multiple options for Scaffolds and functional categories (GO terms, PFAM domain, Transcription factors, KEGG pathway) by pressing the Control (PC) or Command (Mac) key while clicking.

Sequence and expression properties:
Is a feature that is AND
Length > 100 aa
Uncharacterized

Highly expressed in AND


Is on the following Scaffold sequence(s): AND

(Select "All" scaffolds or specifically select each of the scaffold of interest rather than "All")



Gene Ontology (GO) annotation: AND

Is annotated to the following GO-Slim term(s): you will retrieve features annotated directly to the GO terms you select as well as any children of those GO terms.

Add additional GOIDs here(One ID per line)

Transcription factor (TF) and PFAM domain annotation: AND
Is annotated to the following TFs and PFAM domain(s):
TF categories
Add PFAM accessions here(One acession per line)

Specialized Gene and Sequence Searches

- Simultaneous retrieval of multiple types of data for a list of gene or feature names

- Compare any query sequence against various tea plant omics-datasets

- View and navigate tea plant genomic sequence
Search Orthologs and Best Hits

This will search best hits to C. sinensis var. assamica genes or genes in other 10 closely plant species by gene name. Case insensitive and wildcard character (*) searches are allowed.
Search Tea Plant Literature

- View TPIA's annotated literature guide for any gene

- View recent publised tea plant papers through Google or NCBI Pubmed