Plant & Animal Genomes XIII Conference

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

Web Presentation Of Plant Genome Resources

Brian J. Smith-White , Sergey Resenchuk , Vyacheslav Chetvernin , Tatiana Tatusova

  National Center for Biotechnology Information National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health 8600 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20894 USA

We wish to describe the recent additions to the plant genomics resources available through the NCBI Web site Plant Genomes Central at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/PLANTS/PlantList.html. The additions are new organisms, new maps for existing organisms, new resources for plant bioinformatics and the NCBI rice genome assembly.
The new organism is Triticum monococcum - a diploid wheat closely related to the progenitor of the A genome of Triticum aestivum.
The organisms with new maps are barley, corn, rice, sorghum, tomato and wheat.
The new resources are files of BES in FASTA format available from the FTP site. These files are updated weekly.
NCBI has assembled into contigs those GenBank accessions of BAC sequence prepared by IRGSP and labelled 'FINISHED'. The assembled materials are annotated with the IRGSP annotations. These assemblies are available from GenBank.
The goal of the NCBI effort is to prepare a framework for those plants currently with only genetic maps but where chromosome sequence or transcriptome sequence is anticipated within the next five years - i.e. barley, corn, Medicago truncatula, rice, the Solanaceae, sorghum, soybean, wheat, and some commercially pertinent trees.