title: MIPS PlantsDB: a database framework for comparative plant genome research.
abstract: The rapidly increasing amount of plant genome (sequence) data enables powerful comparative analyses and integrative approaches and also requires structured and comprehensive information resources. Databases are needed for both model and crop plant organisms and both intuitive search/browse views and comparative genomics tools should communicate the data to researchers and help them interpret it. MIPS PlantsDB (http://mips.helmholtz-muenchen.de/plant/genomes.jsp) was initially described in NAR in 2007 [Spannagl,M., Noubibou,O., Haase,D., Yang,L., Gundlach,H., Hindemitt, T., Klee,K., Haberer,G., Schoof,H. and Mayer,K.F. (2007) MIPSPlantsDB-plant database resource for integrative and comparative plant genome research. Nucleic Acids Res., 35, D834-D840] and was set up from the start to provide data and information resources for individual plant species as well as a framework for integrative and comparative plant genome research. PlantsDB comprises database instances for tomato, Medicago, Arabidopsis, Brachypodium, Sorghum, maize, rice, barley and wheat. Building up on that, state-of-the-art comparative genomics tools such as CrowsNest are integrated to visualize and investigate syntenic relationships between monocot genomes. Results from novel genome analysis strategies targeting the complex and repetitive genomes of triticeae species (wheat and barley) are provided and cross-linked with model species. The MIPS Repeat Element Database (mips-REdat) and Catalog (mips-REcat) as well as tight connections to other databases, e.g. via web services, are further important components of PlantsDB.
authors.affiliation: Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences/Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Center Munich-German Research Center for Environmental Health, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nussbaumer
authors.forename: Mihaela M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Martis
authors.forename: Stephan K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Roessner
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pfeifer
authors.forename: Kai C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Bader
authors.forename: Sapna
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.forename: Heidrun
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gundlach
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Spannagl
mesh_terms: D018556:Crops, Agricultural / Q000235:genetics; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D018745:Genome, Plant; D020407:Internet; D020071:Interspersed Repetitive Sequences; D005810:Multigene Family; D006109:Poaceae / Q000235:genetics; D012984:Software