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Gramene would like our users to be aware of the scholarship program with OpenHelix for under-represented groups in science. For more information, please see the press release.

The International Peach Genome Initiative (IPGA) has released version 1.0 of the peach genome sequence.

Gramene users might be interested in the paper "Genome-wide association study of 107 phenotypes in Arabidopsis thaliana inbred lines", by S. Atwell et al., published in Nature, March 24, 2010.

By Doreen Ware

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the 52nd Maize Genetics meeting that took place from March 18-21, 2010, in Riva del Garda, Italy. This is the first time the meeting has taken place in Italy. The science and venue set a very high bar for the future maize genetics meetings.

The iPlant Collaborative (www.iplantcollaborative.org) announces free, 2-day workshops to introduce DNA Subway, iPlant's first educational Discovery Environment. Instruction and workshop materials, lunches and coffee breaks are provided, as well as a stipend of $100 are provided. Further support for travel or other related expenses cannot be provided. DNA Subway was developed to make high-level genome analysis broadly available to students and educators.

Flapjack, a software tool from SCRI for "graphical genotyping and haplotype visualization", is now available at their download page. Gramene's genetic diversity modules offers SNP data in Flapjack format.

Two recent papers have cited Gramene. In 2009, Yamamoto et al.

Today Gramene announces an interim release (Build 30a) with the following updates:

Data

Fine mapping and characterization of the Wheat Ph1 gene, a suppressor of crossing over between homologous chromosomes reported by Sidhu et al. PNAS April 15, 2008 vol. 105 no. 15 5815-5820 extensively used Gramene database for analysis and confirming their results. An excellent example of Gramene database usage and its contribution to advancement of plant biology research.

A member of the Gramene team attended The Rice Technical Working Group's (RTWG) 33rd Meeting in Biloxi, MS February 22-25, 2010 and presented a talk titled "Rice genotype, phenotype, and germplasm data in the Gramene database" at the RTWG Applied Genomics Workshop.