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The DH Apple, Comice Pear, Sweet Cherry and Almond Genome project consortia have released the draft genome assemblies of the following four Rosaceae genomes this week:

Putative gene split models are available now for 23 plant reference genomes based on the latest Gramene release 36b (Gramene36bEnsembl70) hosted at Gramene. The split gene models are commonly related to an annotation artifact where a single gene is annotated as two or more genes due to incomplete evidence, but could also result from legitimate evolutionary processes. The Compara Gene Tree method predicts a special class of within-species paralogs called "contiguous_gene_split".

Scientists from Oregon State University and Portland State University develop the transcriptome and other genetic resources of an invasive plant, Brachypodium sylvaticum, for extensive research on plant adaptation.

In order to build and maintain cells, DNA is copied into ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules, also called transcripts. Transcripts are often like a recipe for making proteins, and a collection of all the transcripts in a cell is called a transcriptome.

The Gramene Team is pleased to announce interim release 36b. In collaboration with the Oryza Genome Evolution (OGE) project, the Human Reactome Project, and Ensembl Plants, we are providing in this release:

* A new platform for comparative analysis of plant metabolic, regulatory and signaling networks known as the Plant Reactome (beta version) and currently prototyped with rice pathways.

CALL FOR PAPERS
1st International Workshop on

Semantics for Biodiversity (S4BIODIV)

http://semantic-biodiversity.mpl.ird.fr/
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Held in parallel with

the 10th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2013)

http://2013.eswc-conferences.org/

Montpellier, France, May 26/27, 2013

With 870 million people still hungry (FAOSTAT, 2011), the publication of the most comprehensive analysis to date of two of the most elusive cereal genomes – wheat and barley – opens a realm of possibilities for optimizing the supply of these vital crops.

Gramene and MaizeGDB project teams publish work on MaizeCyc, a network of maize metabolic genes and pathways.

Gramene is looking forward to participating at the annual Plant and Animal Genome (PAG) meeting in the Town & Country Hotel of San Diego, CA from January 12-16, 2013.  We invite the community of plant researchers and breeders to learn how to get the most out of our resources by joining our workshop, stopping by the plant bioinformatics outreach booth, attending a talk or one of our posters.

The speed, cost, and accessibility of DNA sequencing has been transformed in recent years by new technologies, opening up exciting opportunities for disease diagnosis, therapeutic intervention, and studying complex trait variations. Chief among these are genome wide association studies, frequently referred as GWAS, where researchers look for SNP genetic polymorphisms that give raise to phenotypic variation or are in linkage disequilibrium with the causative genetic variants.

The Gramene Team is happy to announce its 36th release.