title: MaizeGDB update: new tools, data and interface for the maize model organism database.
abstract: MaizeGDB is a highly curated, community-oriented database and informatics service to researchers focused on the crop plant and model organism Zea mays ssp. mays. Although some form of the maize community database has existed over the last 25 years, there have only been two major releases. In 1991, the original maize genetics database MaizeDB was created. In 2003, the combined contents of MaizeDB and the sequence data from ZmDB were made accessible as a single resource named MaizeGDB. Over the next decade, MaizeGDB became more sequence driven while still maintaining traditional maize genetics datasets. This enabled the project to meet the continued growing and evolving needs of the maize research community, yet the interface and underlying infrastructure remained unchanged. In 2015, the MaizeGDB team completed a multi-year effort to update the MaizeGDB resource by reorganizing existing data, upgrading hardware and infrastructure, creating new tools, incorporating new data types (including diversity data, expression data, gene models, and metabolic pathways), and developing and deploying a modern interface. In addition to coordinating a data resource, the MaizeGDB team coordinates activities and provides technical support to the maize research community. MaizeGDB is accessible online at http://www.maizegdb.org.
authors.affiliation: USDA-ARS Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA carson.andorf@ars.usda.gov.
authors.forename: Carson M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Andorf
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
authors.forename: Ethalinda K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Cannon
authors.affiliation: USDA-ARS Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
authors.forename: John L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Portwood
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.
authors.forename: Jack M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Gardiner
authors.affiliation: USDA-ARS Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
authors.forename: Lisa C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Harper
authors.affiliation: USDA-ARS Plant Genetics Research Unit, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA Division of Plant Sciences, Department of Agronomy, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.
authors.forename: Mary L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Schaeffer
authors.affiliation: USDA-ARS Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
authors.forename: Bremen L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Braun
authors.affiliation: USDA-ARS Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
authors.forename: Darwin A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Campbell
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
authors.forename: Abhinav G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Vinnakota
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
authors.forename: Venktanaga V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Sribalusu
authors.affiliation: Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
authors.forename: Miranda
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Huerta
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
authors.forename: Kyoung Tak
authors.initials: KT
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
authors.forename: Kokulapalan
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wimalanathan
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
authors.forename: Jacqueline D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Richter
authors.affiliation: Interdepartmental Genetics and Genomics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
authors.forename: Emily D
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Mauch
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
authors.forename: Bhavani S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Rao
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
authors.forename: Scott M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Birkett
authors.affiliation: USDA-ARS Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
authors.forename: Taner Z
authors.initials: TZ
authors.lastname: Sen
authors.affiliation: USDA-ARS Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
authors.forename: Carolyn J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Lawrence-Dill
mesh_terms: D030541:Databases, Genetic; D015870:Gene Expression; D017343:Genes, Plant; D014644:Genetic Variation; D018745:Genome, Plant; D053858:Metabolic Networks and Pathways; D008957:Models, Genetic; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D003313:Zea mays / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism