Gramene: a resource for comparative grass genomics.
Gramene (http://www.gramene.org) is a comparative genome mapping database for grasses and a community resource for rice. Rice, in addition to being an economically important crop, is also a model monocot for understanding other agronomically important grass genomes. Gramene replaces the existing AceDB database 'RiceGenes' with a relational database based on Oracle. Gramene provides curated and integrative information about maps, sequence, genes, genetic markers, mutants, QTLs, controlled vocabularies and publications. Its aims are to use the rice genetic, physical and sequence maps as fundamental organizing units, to provide a common denominator for moving from one crop grass to another and is to serve as a portal for interconnecting with other web-based crop grass resources. This paper describes the initial steps we have taken towards realizing these goals.
Ware
Doreen
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA.
Jaiswal
Pankaj
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Ni
Junjian
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Pan
Xiaokang
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Chang
Kuan
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Clark
Kenneth
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Teytelman
Leonid
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Schmidt
Steve
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Zhao
Wei
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Cartinhour
Samuel
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McCouch
Susan
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Stein
Lincoln
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D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D003196:Computer Graphics; D003628:Database Management Systems; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D005544:Forecasting; D017343:Genes, Plant; D005819:Genetic Markers; D018745:Genome, Plant; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D009154:Mutation; D012275:Oryza / Q000235:genetics*; D006109:Poaceae / Q000235:genetics*; D019655:Quantitative Trait, Heritable; D017385:Sequence Homology
D005819:Genetic Markers