title: A Guide to the PLAZA 3.0 Plant Comparative Genomic Database.
abstract: PLAZA 3.0 is an online resource for comparative genomics and offers a versatile platform to study gene functions and gene families or to analyze genome organization and evolution in the green plant lineage. Starting from genome sequence information for over 35 plant species, precomputed comparative genomic data sets cover homologous gene families, multiple sequence alignments, phylogenetic trees, and genomic colinearity information within and between species. Complementary functional data sets, a Workbench, and interactive visualization tools are available through a user-friendly web interface, making PLAZA an excellent starting point to translate sequence or omics data sets into biological knowledge. PLAZA is available at http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/plaza/ .
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Technologiepark 927, 9052, Ghent, Belgium. klaas.vandepoele@psb.vib-ugent.be.|Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, 9052, Ghent, Belgium. klaas.vandepoele@psb.vib-ugent.be.|Bioinformatics Institute Ghent, Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, 9052, Ghent, Belgium. klaas.vandepoele@psb.vib-ugent.be.
authors.forename: Klaas
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Vandepoele
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D017343:Genes, Plant; D005819:Genetic Markers; D018745:Genome, Plant; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods; D058977:Molecular Sequence Annotation; D005810:Multigene Family; D010802:Phylogeny; D010944:Plants / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D064878:Web Browser
chemical_list: D005819:Genetic Markers
keywords: Comparative genomics; Gene family; Gene functions; Orthology; Plants