Plant & Animal Genomes XI Conference

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

Bioinformatics: Databases
             

DATA SERVICES

Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre (NASC), University of Nottingham, Plant Sciences Division, Sutton Bonington Campus, Loughborough, LE12 5RD, UK

The Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre (NASC) stores large amounts of genetic data for Arabidopsis. Data is obtained from three sources: 1) From NASC in-house services e.g. our transcriptomic service and our catalogue. 2) From our other GARNet service collaborators, chiefly the proteomics service at Cambridge, UK. 3) From large public data banks such as EMBL. This data is then put into our four major databases. Our long standing genomics database is AGR. This contains sequence data from Arabidopsis. Among other things, it allows easy searching for inserts. NASC now also has a transcriptomics database. The current seed catalogue at NASC is undergoing renovation to improve the status as a data resource with emphasis on ease of use and interoperability with external databases. Finally NASC is building a proteomics database to store data from Cambridge, UK. With these new and existing databases, as well as web interfaces, we intend to add a facility to make them 'web-services' / Grid enabled. This will allow bioinformaticians to run automated queries to link the power of these databases together and integrate them with other databases elsewhere.