A Resource for Comparative Grass Genomics

Release # 27

April 2008

News

Nutritious Rice for the World project initiated to study rice at the atomic level.
April 2008, V 27 release notes.
iPlant collaborative open letter of invitation to the plant biology community
Workshop on Cereal Genomics, Cold Spring Harbor, October 14-20,2008
Gramene Receives NSF Grant funding. See NSF Award announcement

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GENOMES: Browse assembled genomes for Oryza sativa indica and japonica, O. glaberrima, O. rufipogon, Zea mays, Sorghum bicolor, Arabidopsis thaliana, Vitis vinifera, and Populus trichocarpa. Look for rice/maize synteny. Narrow your search with GrameneMart. Search for sequence alignment with BLAST. Search by Gene Ontology.

PROTEINS: Search by PFam or ProSite or Browse by Gene Ontology using GO Slim.

COMPARATIVE MAPS: Browse genetic or physical maps for Wild Rice (Oryza sp. from OMAP), Rice, Maize, Wheat, Barley, Oats, Sorghum, and other grasses, or use the Comparative Map Viewer (CMap) to compare maps of different types and species. View map detail information

MARKERS: Search for Genetic markers (RFLPs, SSRs, etc.), DNA Probes (Primers, Overgos, etc.), Genomic Regions (Clones, FPContigs, etc.), and Sequences (GSSs, ESTs, etc.). Search by species such as Sorghum, by type such as SSR Primer Pair, or by species and type such as Rice SSR. Use the Simple Sequence Repeat Identification Tool (SSRIT).

TRAITS: Search the Genes or QTL database for important phenotype-releated loci such as Rice Genes, Rice QTL, Maize QTL. Don't forget to explore traits in Ontologies.

GENETIC DIVERSITY: Search for SNP and SSR allelic variation on loci of rice, maize, and wheat germplasms.

BIOCHEMICAL PATHWAYS: Search for a gene, protein, or pathway. Search for rice pathways associated with known reactions (e.g., starch biosynthesis) or get an overview of the metabolic network.

LITERATURE: Search the literature for your friends and topics of interest.

SPECIES PAGES provide overview information, pictures, and links to Gramene data for Oryza, Zea, Triticum, Hordeum, Avena, Setaria, Pennisetum, Secale, Sorghum, Zizania, and Brachypodium.

SUBMISSION: Submit a Rice Gene or Ontology Term to Gramene or ask a question.

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Gramene is a curated, open-source, data resource for comparative genome analysis in the grasses. Our goal is to facilitate the study of cross-species homology relationships using information derived from public projects involved in genomic and EST sequencing, protein structure and function analysis, genetic and physical mapping, interpretation of biochemical pathways, gene and QTL localization and descriptions of phenotypic characters and mutations.

Last modified: Thu May 22 15:41:47 2008