Plant & Animal Genomes XIII Conference

January 15-19, 2005
Town & Country Convention Center
San Diego, CA

The Plant Genomics Network (PGN), A Website For Plant EST Sequencing Projects

Teri Solow¹ , Lukas A. Mueller¹ , Steven D. Tanksley¹ , James Leebens-Mack² , Claude dePamphilis²

¹  Cornell University, Dept Plant Breeding, Emerson Hall, Ithaca NY 14853

²  Penn State University, Department of Biology and Life Sciences Consortium, Mueller Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802, USA

PGN is a web-based resource and relational database for plant EST sequencing projects, created as a front-end for the Floral Genome Project (http://www.floralgenome.org/). Currently, the website contains EST data for a diverse array of non-model species sampled from across the angiosperm phylogeny. Links are provided to other large EST databases focused primarily on model species. With its web-based data submission, PGN has been designed as a general purpose EST analysis pipeline/website that can be readily used as a "front end" for other EST sequencing projects. PGN provides both an EST processing and annotation pipeline as well as a stable web address for the datasets, and makes available a number of tools that operate on the data, such as blast, unigene build statistics, annotations, and more. A condition for the publication of data on PGN are that they be freely available and open to the public. PGN is available at http://pgn.cornell.edu/ .