GROP: A genomic information repository for oilplants

Wenlei Guo; Hongmiao Jin; Junhao Chen; Junhao Chen; Jianqin Huang; Dingwei Zheng; Zhitao Cheng; Xinyao Liu; Zhengfu Yang; Fei Chen; Fei Chen; Kean-Jin Lim; Zhengjia Wang

doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.1023938

Frontiers in Plant Science (Oct 2022)

GROP: A genomic information repository for oilplants

Wenlei Guo,
Hongmiao Jin,
Junhao Chen,
Junhao Chen,
Jianqin Huang,
Dingwei Zheng,
Zhitao Cheng,
Xinyao Liu,
Zhengfu Yang,
Fei Chen,
Fei Chen,
Kean-Jin Lim,
Zhengjia Wang

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Wenlei Guo: State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, College of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, China
Hongmiao Jin: State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, College of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, China
Junhao Chen: State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, College of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, China
Junhao Chen: Department of Biology, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, United States
Jianqin Huang: State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, College of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, China
Dingwei Zheng: State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, College of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, China
Zhitao Cheng: State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, College of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, China
Xinyao Liu: State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, College of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, China
Zhengfu Yang: State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, College of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, China
Fei Chen: College of Tropical Crops, Sanya Nanfan Research Institute, Hainan University, Haikou, China
Fei Chen: Hainan Yazhou Bay Seed Laboratory, Sanya Nanfan Research Institute, Hainan University, Sanya, China
Kean-Jin Lim: State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, College of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, China
Zhengjia Wang: State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, College of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.1023938
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13

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Biomass energy is an essential component of the agriculture economy and represents an important and particularly significant renewable energy source in the fight against fossil fuel depletion and global warming. The recognition that many plants naturally synthesize hydrocarbons makes these oil plants indispensable resources for biomass energy, and the advancement of next-generation sequencing technology in recent years has now made available mountains of data on plants that synthesize oil. We have utilized a combination of bioinformatic protocols to acquire key information from this massive amount of genomic data and to assemble it into an oil plant genomic information repository, built through website technology, including Django, Bootstrap, and echarts, to create the Genomic Information Repository for Oil Plants (GROP) portal (http://grop.site/) for genomics research on oil plants. The current version of GROP integrates the coding sequences, protein sequences, genome structure, functional annotation information, and other information from 18 species, 22 genome assemblies, and 46 transcriptomes. GROP also provides BLAST, genome browser, functional enrichment, and search tools. The integration of the massive amounts of oil plant genomic data with key bioinformatics tools in a database with a user-friendly interface allows GROP to serve as a central information repository to facilitate studies on oil plants by researchers worldwide.

Published in Frontiers in Plant Science

ISSN: 1664-462X (Online)
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Agriculture: Plant culture
Website: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science

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