If you have just started to investigate an area of interest, we recommend searching Gramene's Literature database (http://www.gramene.org/literature/index.html) first or using the Search field found on the top of every page.

No, Gramene only stores information on data. Try consulting our Literature database. (http://www.gramene.org/literature/index.html)

No, Gramene does not store seed. Visit our Resources Page for this information (http://www.gramene.org/resources/#germplasm)

See http://www.gramene.org/about/copyright_statement.html. Please acknowledge the Gramene Database by citing the web address: www.gramene.org, and one of the following articles: * (Gramene Reference ID 11021)Gramene: a bird's eye view of cereal genomes. Nucleic Acids Research, 2006 Jan 1;34(Database issue):D717-23. * (Gramene Reference ID 6446)Gramene: a resource for comparative grass genomics. Nucleic Acids Research, 2002, Vol. 30, No. 1, 103-105.

The Gramene staff can be reached by either selecting "Feedback" at the top or bottom of every page on the Gramene site, or by e-mailing them at gramene@gramene.org.

The Gramene project is funded by an IFAFS grant from the USDA Cooperative State Research and Education Service (CSREES), a Plant Genome Initiative grant from the National Science Foundation, and was previously supported by a Specific Cooperative Agreement through the USDA Agricultural Research Service.

Gramene has several collaborators and contributors. See http://www.gramene.org/collaborators/

When you are having problems viewing Gramene, we suggest trying a different browser. Although we continually work to make it compatible with all browsers, sometimes browser updates cause problems with the display - such as with the navigation bar or page displays. Please report the problem through Gramene feedback, let us know what browser and version number you were using, and if another browser corrected the problem.

Gramene is incompatible with Apache 2 and will only work with Apache 1.3.x. However, you can just compile a 1.3.x version into something like "/opt/apache1/" and have it listen on an alternate port (say "81"?). You can seamlessly proxy all Gramene-related requests through your Apache 2 server to this alternate server.

Gramene's data model has developed rather organically over the years as a result of how we've absorbed various legacy databases (RiceGenes) or developed novel tools (CMap) or incorporated/customized third-party software (Ensembl, EcoCyc, GO) or taken on new datasets (proteins, genes). As such, we really have many fairly distinct "modules" that can be curated independently and which join up through a set of conventions, cross-references, and ontologies. You can go to our FTP site to examine our schemas and get the MySQL dumps of all our databases. Or you can download the latest tarball of our software distribution and inspect the Class::DBI classes we generate from them in the "lib/perl/Gramene/CDBI" directory. The raw schemas are not part of our tarball, which is something I was considering adding for the next release. Keep in mind the number of non-Gramene tools we use, too, when trying to get an idea of all our pieces. You'll have to go get CMap (available at the GMOD Sourceforge site or our FTP), the Ensembl code (see the "README.ensembl" file in our tarball), the Gene Ontology schema (also a SF project), etc.

The paper can be found at http://www.gramene.org/resources/plant_databases.pdf. It is linked from our site map at http://www.gramene.org/sitemap.html

There is a species page for Brachypodium, so click on the Brachypodium image on the species nav bar at the bottom of the page, and go to "Gramene Statistics". The current data in Gramene is listed here, and it is updated with each quarterly release of the database. Check back for updates. http://www.gramene.org/species/brachypodium/brachypodium_stat.html