Plant, Animal & Microbe Genomes X Conference

January 12-16, 2002
Town & Country Convention Center
San Diego, CA

Workshop: Databases, Gene Systematics, and Nomenclature
            

MaizeDB: A FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS PERSPECTIVE

¹ USDA-ARS, 203 Curtis Hall, Univeristy of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 USA

MaizeDB, www.agron.missouri.edu presents genetic maps integrated with available information about gene expression and function. The database includes map and function documentation, including certain raw data, tool information (probes, clones, genetic stocks) and data sources; this documentation allows for evaluation and reproducibility of the data. Genome function is represented both at the molecular level -- gene products and pathways -- and at the plant level -- inherited phenotypes and agronomic traits. The goals are two-fold: to permit discovery and to drive hypothesis-based research. The potential will be discussed for data access utilities now in production:

• A BLAST server, adapted to retrieve map information and links to MaizeDB, ZmDB, CUGI, TIGR and GenBank, in addition to the customary alignments;
• CMAP, a dynamic, hypertext comparative map viewer, presented last year at this conference, now operates in a database environment and includes, in addition to maize maps, rice and sorghum maps.