Plant & Animal Genomes XI Conference

January 11-15, 2003
Town & Country Convention Center
San Diego, CA

Bioinformatics: Databases
           Computer: Demo Only

BIOINFORMATIC SOLUTIONS IN THE FLORAL GENOME PROJECT

¹ Penn State University, 208 Mueller Lab, Universtiy Park, PA, 16802, USA

² Oxford University, CEH Oxford, Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3SR, England

The Floral Genome Project (FGP) is a massive evolutionary genomics effort focused on the origin, conservation, and diversification of genetic architecture of the flower through comparative sequencing and gene expression studies. The web-based bioinformatic solutions devolved for such a study are described:
* A Lab Information Management System (LIMS) to organize 15 plant species and their associated library and tissue information, as well as the hundreds of plates and thousands of ESTs generated
* A Floral Gene Database to manage key floral gene families and the tools to develop such relationships
* An EST analysis pipeline using genomic information from model organisms such as Arabidopsis and Rice to annotate and locate target genes and create phylogenetic relationships