title: User Guidelines for the Brassica Database: BRAD.
abstract: The genome sequence of Brassica rapa was first released in 2011. Since then, further Brassica genomes have been sequenced or are undergoing sequencing. It is therefore necessary to develop tools that help users to mine information from genomic data efficiently. This will greatly aid scientific exploration and breeding application, especially for those with low levels of bioinformatic training. Therefore, the Brassica database (BRAD) was built to collect, integrate, illustrate, and visualize Brassica genomic datasets. BRAD provides useful searching and data mining tools, and facilitates the search of gene annotation datasets, syntenic or non-syntenic orthologs, and flanking regions of functional genomic elements. It also includes genome-analysis tools such as BLAST and GBrowse. One of the important aims of BRAD is to build a bridge between Brassica crop genomes with the genome of the model species Arabidopsis thaliana, thus transferring the bulk of A. thaliana gene study information for use with newly sequenced Brassica crops.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 12 Zhongguancun South Street, Haidian District, Beijing, 100081, China.
authors.forename: Xiaobo
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 12 Zhongguancun South Street, Haidian District, Beijing, 100081, China.
authors.forename: Feng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.affiliation: Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 12 Zhongguancun South Street, Haidian District, Beijing, 100081, China. wangxiaowu@caas.cn.
authors.forename: Xiaowu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D001937:Brassica / Q000235:genetics*; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D057225:Data Mining; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods*; D064878:Web Browser
keywords: BRAD; Brassica crop; Brassica database; Brassicaceae; Comparative genomic s; Genome sequences; Genomic syntenic