title: BRAD, the genetics and genomics database for Brassica plants.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Brassica species include both vegetable and oilseed crops, which are very important to the daily life of common human beings. Meanwhile, the Brassica species represent an excellent system for studying numerous aspects of plant biology, specifically for the analysis of genome evolution following polyploidy, so it is also very important for scientific research. Now, the genome of Brassica rapa has already been assembled, it is the time to do deep mining of the genome data.
  
  
  METHODS
  BRAD, the Brassica database, is a web-based resource focusing on genome scale genetic and genomic data for important Brassica crops. BRAD was built based on the first whole genome sequence and on further data analysis of the Brassica A genome species, Brassica rapa (Chiifu-401-42). It provides datasets, such as the complete genome sequence of B. rapa, which was de novo assembled from Illumina GA II short reads and from BAC clone sequences, predicted genes and associated annotations, non coding RNAs, transposable elements (TE), B. rapa genes' orthologous to those in A. thaliana, as well as genetic markers and linkage maps. BRAD offers useful searching and data mining tools, including search across annotation datasets, search for syntenic or non-syntenic orthologs, and to search the flanking regions of a certain target, as well as the tools of BLAST and Gbrowse. BRAD allows users to enter almost any kind of information, such as a B. rapa or A. thaliana gene ID, physical position or genetic marker.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  BRAD, a new database which focuses on the genetics and genomics of the Brassica plants has been developed, it aims at helping scientists and breeders to fully and efficiently use the information of genome data of Brassica plants. BRAD will be continuously updated and can be accessed through http://brassicadb.org.
authors: Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China.
authors: Feng
authors: F
authors: Cheng
authors: Shengyi
authors: S
authors: Liu
authors: Jian
authors: J
authors: Wu
authors: Lu
authors: L
authors: Fang
authors: Silong
authors: S
authors: Sun
authors: Bo
authors: B
authors: Liu
authors: Pingxia
authors: P
authors: Li
authors: Wei
authors: W
authors: Hua
authors: Xiaowu
authors: X
authors: Wang
mesh_terms: D001937:Brassica / Q000235:genetics*; D057225:Data Mining; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D018745:Genome, Plant; D023281:Genomics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D014584:User-Computer Interface