title: Gramene: a resource for comparative grass genomics.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA.
authors.forename: Doreen
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ware
authors.forename: Pankaj
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jaiswal
authors.forename: Junjian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ni
authors.forename: Xiaokang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.forename: Kuan
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Kenneth
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Clark
authors.forename: Leonid
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Teytelman
authors.forename: Steve
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Samuel
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cartinhour
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: McCouch
authors.forename: Lincoln
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Stein
mesh_terms: 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
chemical_list: D005819:Genetic Markers