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The Gramene team is happy to announce interim release 34b.  We have now added the reference genome for Cyanidioschyzon merolae 10D, a primitive unicellular red alga, which lives in acidic hot water (like hot springs), bringing us to 23 genomes.  We updated the software of our Ensembl genome browser to version 65, updated the gene models for Physcomitrella patens (moss), updated the gene and prediction tables f

The 54th Annual Maize Genetics Conference will be held at the Doubletree Hotel in Portland, Oregon, from March 15-18, 2012. This year’s meeting will feature four plenary speakers: Bill Tracy (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison), Venkatesan Sundaresan (Univ. of California, Davis), Jenny Graves (Australian National University), and Thomas Dresselhaus (Univ. of Regensburg). Further details about the program, registration for meeting and housing, abstracts, and transportation are available at the meeting website.

On the morning of Sunday, February 5, 2012, the Plant Ontology Consortium will host a tutorial on bio-ontologies to take place at the New York Botanical Garden. Further details are available at bioontology.org.

Gramene will be present at next week's Plant and Animal Genome (PAG) XX meeting in San Diego, CA from January 14-18, 2012. On Tuesday, January 17, we will present a workshop from 3:50 PM-6:00 PM in the California Room. We will also participate in a Plant Genomics Outreach booth (#423) with other members of the plant community to answer your questions about furthering your research with our resources.

Responsibilities: Advances in biochemistry, metabolomics, and metabolic engineering, and the availability of genomic sequences for food crop species are opening new and valuable research opportunities for plant breeding. This molecular breeding position will have responsibility for conducting innovative research exploring genetic/epigenetic/quantitative variation in plants and the association with phenotypic variation in traits relating to human and animal health and nutrition made accessible by the latest technologies.

The developers of Flapjack have released a new version (1.11.12.13). Flapjack is a tool for visualizing genotypic and haplotype data that "can handle the large data volumes generated by high throughput SNP and comparable genotyping technologies." Gramene's diversity data sets are available in Flapjack format. We encourage you to extend your analysis of our data using tools like Flapjack.

The first draft of the pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan) geneome of the variety ‘Asha’ was published last week in two separate but similar reports.

The Gramene team is happy to announce the 34th major release of the site. In our Ensembl genome browser, six genomes have been updated and we have added Glycine max (soybean), Selaginella moellendorffii, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii bringing us to 22 genomes.

We are pleased to announce the release of the BrachyCyc database. Developed by the Gramene database project, BrachyCyc is a catalog of predicted metabolic pathways from Brachypodium distachyon. Pathways and genes presented in this catalog are primarily based on the annotations carried out by Gramene on the version 1.2 of the gene models and release 1.0 of the Brachypodium distachyon inbred line Bd21 genome. The database was created using the Pathway Tools PathoLogic module developed by Peter D.

Gramene members contributed to a new paper entitled "QlicRice: a web interface for abiotic stress responsive QTL and loci interaction channels in rice in the journal Database. "The QlicRice database is designed to host publicly accessible, abiotic stress responsive quantitative trait loci (QTLs) in rice (Oryza sativa) and their corresponding sequenced gene loci." You can try out the new interface.