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The iPlant Collaborative (www.iplantcollaborative.org) announces free, 2-day workshops to introduce DNA Subway, iPlant's first educational Discovery Environment. Instruction and workshop materials, lunches and coffee breaks are provided, as well as a stipend of $100 are provided. Further support for travel or other related expenses cannot be provided. DNA Subway was developed to make high-level genome analysis broadly available to students and educators.

Flapjack, a software tool from SCRI for "graphical genotyping and haplotype visualization", is now available at their download page. Gramene's genetic diversity modules offers SNP data in Flapjack format.

Two recent papers have cited Gramene. In 2009, Yamamoto et al.

Today Gramene announces an interim release (Build 30a) with the following updates:

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Fine mapping and characterization of the Wheat Ph1 gene, a suppressor of crossing over between homologous chromosomes reported by Sidhu et al. PNAS April 15, 2008 vol. 105 no. 15 5815-5820 extensively used Gramene database for analysis and confirming their results. An excellent example of Gramene database usage and its contribution to advancement of plant biology research.

A member of the Gramene team attended The Rice Technical Working Group's (RTWG) 33rd Meeting in Biloxi, MS February 22-25, 2010 and presented a talk titled "Rice genotype, phenotype, and germplasm data in the Gramene database" at the RTWG Applied Genomics Workshop.

Several of Gramene's personnel were present at the 2010 Plant and Animal Genome (PAG) conference in San Diego, CA. We presented posters on metabolic pathway networks for cereal plants, genome visualization tools, and using our genetic diversity data for genotype-phenotype association analysis in grass species as well as flowering time variation across three plant species. We additionally presented an hour-long demonstration of using the Gramene website as a genomics and genetics resource for rice and other grasses.

The January 14th edition of Nature contains an article describing the whole-genome shotgun sequencing of the soybean genome. It has been "sequenced and integrated with physical and high-density genetic maps to create a chromosome-scale draft sequence assembly" (Schmutz et al.).

Florida Institute of Technology an independent, technological university located on Florida’s east coast invites applications for an assistant or associate professor position beginning in Fall 2010. Candidates must have expertise in plant biology and biochemistry, a Ph.D. degree, and relevant postdoctoral experience. Successful candidates are expected to participate in undergraduate and graduate (M.S./Ph.D.) teaching, and will be expected to establish an active, externally-funded research program.

Gramene is hiring a Programmer/Analyst and a Database Biologist at Cornell University! Please see the links for more information or come find us at PAG this week to talk to us.