The Gramene Database build 55 is out with a brand new Jute genome!

The Gramene Team is pleased to announce its release #55 with 1,836,677 genes and 45 reference plant genomes.  Of these genes, 1,588,290 are protein coding, and 1,492,253 genes organized in 63,367 gene family trees.

• Updated genomes
  • New assembly and annotation for Corchorus capsularis (Jute; GCA_001974805)
• New data
  • New alignment based cross references to UniProt and RefSeq across all plants
  • New automatic ncRNA gene annotations across all plants
  • New Plant Reactome cross-references across all plants
  • New whole genome alignments between Hordeum vulgare (barley) and
    • Oryza sativa (summarized here), and
    • Brachypodium distachyon (summarized here)
• Updated data
  • Updated peptide comparative genomics including the new Jute genome
  • Updated protein features using InterProScan with version 64 of InterPro
  • Updated BioMart
• New web features
  • Pathways link on gene pages
  • Neighborhood conservation mode to the Homology tab of the results of a Search query
• Updated software
  • Updated genome browser, database schema, Mart and API to Ensembl 90 software

A complete description of the contents of this new release is available in our release notes.  The genome databases were built in direct collaboration with Ensembl Plants and the Plant Reactome database was built in collaboration with the Reactome project.

Please let us know if you have questions or suggestions.

The Gramene Team