title: The Rice Annotation Project Database (RAP-DB): hub for Oryza sativa ssp. japonica genome information.
abstract: With the completion of the rice genome sequencing, a standardized annotation is necessary so that the information from the genome sequence can be fully utilized in understanding the biology of rice and other cereal crops. An annotation jamboree was held in Japan with the aim of annotating and manually curating all the genes in the rice genome. Here we present the Rice Annotation Project Database (RAP-DB), which has been developed to provide access to the annotation data. The RAP-DB has two different types of annotation viewers, BLAST and BLAT search, and other useful features. By connecting the annotations to other rice genomics data, such as full-length cDNAs and Tos17 mutant lines, the RAP-DB serves as a hub for rice genomics. All of the resources can be accessed through http://rapdb.lab.nig.ac.jp/.
authors.affiliation: Center for Information Biology and DNA Data Bank of Japan, National Institute of Genetics, Research Organization of Information and Systems, 1111 Yata, Mishima, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan.
authors.forename: Hajime
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ohyanagi
authors.forename: Tsuyoshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Hiroaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sakai
authors.forename: Yasumasa
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shigemoto
authors.forename: Kaori
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamaguchi
authors.forename: Takuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Habara
authors.forename: Yasuyuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fujii
authors.forename: Baltazar A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Antonio
authors.forename: Yoshiaki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nagamura
authors.forename: Tadashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Imanishi
authors.forename: Kazuho
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ikeo
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Itoh
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gojobori
authors.forename: Takuji
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sasaki
mesh_terms: D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D018745:Genome, Plant; D023281:Genomics; D020407:Internet; D012275:Oryza / Q000235:genetics*; D014584:User-Computer Interface