title: MeioBase: a comprehensive database for meiosis.
abstract: Meiosis is a special type of cell division process necessary for the sexual reproduction of all eukaryotes. The ever expanding meiosis research calls for an effective and specialized database that is not readily available yet. To fill this gap, we have developed a knowledge database MeioBase (http://meiosis.ibcas.ac.cn), which is comprised of two core parts, Resources and Tools. In the Resources part, a wealth of meiosis data collected by curation and manual review from published literatures and biological databases are integrated and organized into various sections, such as Cytology, Pathway, Species, Interaction, and Expression. In the Tools part, some useful tools have been integrated into MeioBase, such as Search, Download, Blast, Comparison, My Favorites, Submission, and Advice. With a simplified and efficient web interface, users are able to search against the database with gene model IDs or keywords, and batch download the data for local investigation. We believe that MeioBase can greatly facilitate the researches related to meiosis.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China ; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Hao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China ; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Fanrui
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Meng
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Chunce
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering and Collaborative Innovation Center for Genetics and Development, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Sciences and Ecological Engineering, Institute of Plant Biology, Institute of Biodiversity Science, Center for Evolutionary Biology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Yingxiang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Shanghai Key Lab of Intelligent Information Processing and School of Computer Science, Fudan University Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Xiaojing
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.affiliation: Shanghai Key Lab of Intelligent Information Processing and School of Computer Science, Fudan University Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Tiansheng
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.affiliation: Shanghai Key Lab of Intelligent Information Processing and School of Computer Science, Fudan University Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Shuigeng
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering and Collaborative Innovation Center for Genetics and Development, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Sciences and Ecological Engineering, Institute of Plant Biology, Institute of Biodiversity Science, Center for Evolutionary Biology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University Shanghai, China ; Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Hongyan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shan
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Hongzhi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kong
keywords: MeioBase; eukaryotes; knowledge database; meiosis; meiotic genes; protein-protein interaction; sexual reproduction