Plant & Animal Genomes XIII Conference Plant & Animal Genomes XIII ConferenceJanuary 15-19, 2005
Town & Country Convention Center
San Diego, CA
The Generic Model Organism Database (GMOD) Project is an open source project to develop a complete set of software for creating and administering a model organism database. Components of this project include genome visualization and editing tools, literature curation tools, a robust database schema, biological ontology tools, and a set of standard operating procedures. This project is funded by the NIH and the USDA Agricultural Research Service, with participation from members of several database projects, including WormBase, FlyBase, Mouse Genome Informatics, Gramene, the Rat Genome Database, TAIR, EcoCyc, and the Saccharomyces Genome Database.
Released modules include Chado, a flexible modular relational schema for genome information, Apollo, a genome feature editor and curator's tool, GBrowse, a flexible web-based genome browser, Textpresso, a paper indexing and search tool, the PubSearch/PubFetch literature curation tools, and Caryoscope, a gene expression visualization tools. Over the next year we will be releasing more components, ultimately creating a model organism database construction set.