Gramene Build 29 Released

Submitted by admin on Fri, 02/27/2009 - 10:18

The Gramene team is happy to announce the release of our 29th build. We have upgraded our Ensembl genome browser to version 52 and added or updated six genomes (Arabidopsis lyrata, Vitisvinifera [grape], Populus trichocarpa [poplar], Sorghum bicolor, Oryza glaberrima short arm, Arabidosis thaliana updated to TAIR8). We feature new mappings of selected plant sequences to our 9 sequenced genomes and a reorganization of the cereal alignment contigview tracks as well as the results of our new whole genome alignments from Ensembl's blastz-chain-net pipeline. Our existing Ensembl Marts for genes have been improved and new marts have been created for mappings, markers, ontologies and QTLs. We have improved our gene trees from Compara and added searches of our markers and sequences database by ontology terms and arbitrary tags. Autocomplete input boxes make useful suggestions on our quick search, and we've added four new maps from wheat, barley and maize. Maize genes were updated from MaizeGDB, and 75 traits in maize now have diversity association data available on our FTP site. Several new web services allow more direct access to our databases including DAS for Gramene and Ensembl genes, QTLs via SSWAP, and a public, read-only MySQL server hosting Ensembl, QTL, genes and markers/sequences databases.

Please visit http://www.gramene.org/ for a tour of our latest work.