Plant & Animal Genomes XIII Conference Plant & Animal Genomes XIII ConferenceJanuary 15-19, 2005
Town & Country Convention Center
San Diego, CA
Beth A. Skwarecki , Nicholas Taylor , Teri Solow , Chenwei Lin , Eileen Wang , Emil Keyder , Miriam Wallace , Igor Dolgalev , Evan Herbst , Robert Ahrens , Mark Wright , Lukas Mueller , Steven Tanksley
The Solanaceae Genomics Network (SGN, http://sgn.cornell.edu) is a comprehensive web resource for Solanaceae genome information, containing information on markers, maps, est sequences and unigene builds for species such as tomato, potato, pepper, eggplant and petunia. All data is accessible in a comparative format with many intuitive graphical interfaces, such as a new comparative map viewer, and advanced search interfaces for complex queries. An overview of SGN and the computational methods used in generating the data on the site will be given.
In addition, SGN will be a part of the bioinformatics infrastructure of the international tomato sequencing project. Information such as the BAC end sequences will be available starting in November 2004. Already completed and available is the overgo map, where more than 600 overgos have been unambiguously mapped to over 5000 BACs. An effort is currently underway to combine the overgo map with a Dutch AFLP based map, which should bring the total to approximately 2000 anchor points, which will be used as 'seeds' to start sequencing the tomato. As BACs are sequenced, they will be made available on SGN along with their annotations, as will the results of FISH analyses performed during the course of the project.