A few years ago Greg Wilson, a student in the McCouch Lab at Cornell University, developed a web-based marker search tool called CHARM which greatly simplifies the search for rice SSR markers in a region of interest. This tool may be of particular utility for rice geneticists and breeders who simply want to retrieve a [...]

The Gramene Genetic Diversity curator, Genevieve DeClerck, traveled to USDA-ARS Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center (DB NRRC) in Stuttgart, AR June 15-17, 2009. Genevieve’s visit included presenting a talk (PDF here) about what’s new with the Genetic Diversity module and how it can be used to mine data important to rice breeding projects. Another [...]

The Plant Ontology Consortium (www.plantontology.org) is seeking applicants for a full-time position of scientific curator who will coordinate the Consortium’s efforts. The Plant Ontology Consortium is a collaboration among researchers at Oregon State University, Cornell University and New York Botanical Garden. The project is funded by the National Science Foundation. The Consortium also collaborates with [...]

A new and improved Gramene Genetic Diversity website was rolled out today. The major goal of the overhaul was to increase database browsability, which the new ‘Database summary’ table achieves nicely by offering an overview of data for each species as well as hyperlinks to the data sets themselves. Also new is an area called [...]