Current Plant Biology (Nov 2016)

Gramene database: Navigating plant comparative genomics resources

  • Parul Gupta,
  • Sushma Naithani,
  • Marcela Karey Tello-Ruiz,
  • Kapeel Chougule,
  • Peter D’Eustachio,
  • Antonio Fabregat,
  • Yinping Jiao,
  • Maria Keays,
  • Young Koung Lee,
  • Sunita Kumari,
  • Joseph Mulvaney,
  • Andrew Olson,
  • Justin Preece,
  • Joshua Stein,
  • Sharon Wei,
  • Joel Weiser,
  • Laura Huerta,
  • Robert Petryszak,
  • Paul Kersey,
  • Lincoln D. Stein,
  • Doreen Ware,
  • Pankaj Jaiswal

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpb.2016.12.005
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. C
pp. 10 – 15

Abstract

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Gramene (http://www.gramene.org) is an online, open source, curated resource for plant comparative genomics and pathway analysis designed to support researchers working in plant genomics, breeding, evolutionary biology, system biology, and metabolic engineering. It exploits phylogenetic relationships to enrich the annotation of genomic data and provides tools to perform powerful comparative analyses across a wide spectrum of plant species. It consists of an integrated portal for querying, visualizing and analyzing data for 44 plant reference genomes, genetic variation data sets for 12 species, expression data for 16 species, curated rice pathways and orthology-based pathway projections for 66 plant species including various crops. Here we briefly describe the functions and uses of the Gramene database.