Review of Orbigen
Title: Orbigen,
Date Reviewed: May 20,2002
Description: Orbigen is a company
website featuring its products and services, some of them quite novel indeed.
For instance, they will custom synthesize fluorescently labeled ds RNAi
oligonucleotides. They also offer more than 14,000 ready to use full-length mouse cDNA clones, which can be tagged and
sub-cloned in to an appropriate vector for $499/gene. Furthermore, they can
also produce polyclonal or monoclonal antibodies against your gene product. It
also flaunts a nice collection of protocols and RNAi links.
Strengths:
Mouse Genes are well organized with the corresponding NCBI entry
for the cDNA, locuslink and Unigene links.
The full-length cDNA clones are reasonably priced at $499 each and
baculovirus clones are priced at $295.
Fluorescently labeled RNAi is a novel product being offered by
them.
Fairly comprehensive protocol and RNAi section.
Bookmarks section pretty good too.
Weaknesses:
Frames are sometimes bothersome.
Frequent Error messages
Comprehensiveness: Good in terms of mouse
clone and protocol collections and RNAi links.
Timeliness: Lacking, gauging from the
mouse clone collection and bookmarks section, which were last updated on
9/30/01.
Ease of Use: Medium
Responsiveness: Medium
Similar or Related Sites:
http://www.origene.com/humgen.html
Overall Evaluation: **** 4 stars
Reviewer: Shveta Taparia
Email: shveta.taparia@tufts.edu