Expressedsequencetags(ESTs)arewidelyusedingenesurveyresearchtheseyears.TheESTPipelineSystem,softwaredevelopedbyHangzhouGenomicsInstitute(HGI),canautomaticallyanalyzedifferentscalarESTsequencesbysuitablemethods.Alltheanalysisreports,includingthoseofvectormasking,sequenceassembly,geneannotation,GeneOntologyclassification,andsomeotheranalyses,canbebrowsedandsearchedaswellasdownloadedintheExcelformatfromthewebinterface,savingresearcheffortsfromroutinedataprocessingforbiologicalrulesembeddedinthedata.