MaizeCyc version 2.0 released
We are pleased to announce the release of the MaizeCyc database version 2.0 (official release). MaizeCyc is accessible from the following mirror sites:
Developed by personnel at the comparative genomics database Gramene and the maize model organism database MaizeGDB in collaboration with the Maize Genome Sequencing Project (MGSC), MaizeCyc is a catalog of known and/or predicted metabolic and transport pathways from maize (Zea mays ssp. mays). Pathways and genes presented in this catalog are based on the electronic and manual annotations of the B73 RefGen_v2 gene models. It includes various sequence-based associations provided by Gramene, MaizeSequence.org, and MaizeGDB to external database entries from EntrezGene, UniProt-SwissProt and GenBank. In this round, manual annotations of genes include mapping of classical phenotype genes to sequenced genomic loci provided by Schnable and Freeling, and proteomics-supported gene annotations from Friso et al (2010). The database was created using the Pathway Tools PathoLogic module developed by Peter D. Karp and coworkers at the Bioinformatics Research Group at SRI International.
We welcome feedback from the research community to help us build a good quality network. You can reach us by sending a message to MaizeCyc curators through the MaizeCyc sites.
MaizeCyc is based upon the BioCyc software. To learn how to use MaizeCyc, you can use the tutorials at BioCyc or the video tutorial developed for Gramene Pathways. Full exports of the new database can be found at the Gramene FTP site.
This work is supported by the NSF Plant Genome Research Resource grant award #0703908 (Gramene: A Platform for Comparative Plant Genomics) and the USDA-ARS (The Maize Genetics and Genomics Database).
Sincerely,
The Gramene and MaizeGDB Teams