Plant & Animal Genomes XIII Conference Plant & Animal Genomes XIII ConferenceJanuary 15-19, 2005
Town & Country Convention Center
San Diego, CA
Alan R. Gingle , Yecheng Huang , Hongyu Wang , Hongyu Yang
The Comparative Grass Genomics Center database (http://cggc.agtec.uga.edu) provides access to sorghum EST, genetic/physical map and polymorphism data via Web interfaces and application tools. During the current year we are focusing on enhancements to the resource’s data integration and search capabilities. New displays have been developed for mapped probe information and dot-plot based comparative map views. The mapped probe information display provides a portal to a range of CGGC and other resources for genetic and physical map as well as source and sequence related information. The comparative map display, based on our OxfordGrid, provides interactive dot-plot views that highlight synteny/colinearity within sorghum as well as between sorghum and maize. These views are linked to more conventional genetic map views provided by our IntegratedMap display. Enhanced search forms have been developed for mapped objects and EST data sets. BAC clones/contigs, polymorphisms and probes are all searchable based on name content and from alphabetical lists. Also, a search form has been added to our ESTminer contig and cluster mining tool. ESTs and their contigs/clusters are searchable based on name and GenBank Ids. These search forms act as portals to related CGGC and other displays/resources. Also, we are developing installation packages for our data visualization tools. Currently, packages for ESTminer and IntegratedMap are available at our download site (http://cggc.agtec.uga.edu/Data/download.asp). This effort is supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Grain Sorghum Producers and the University of Georgia Research Foundation.