Plant & Animal Genomes XIII Conference

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

MaizeGDB Community Curation Tools

Carolyn J. Lawrence¹ , Sanford B. Baran¹ , Trent E. Seigfried^{1, 2} , Darwin A. Campbell^{1, 2} , Mary L. Polacco^{2, 3} , Evelyn N. Hiatt⁴

¹  Iowa State University, 526 Science II, Ames, IA, 50011, USA

²  USDA-ARS

³  The University of Missouri, 203 Curtis Hall, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA

⁴  Kentucky Wesleyan College, 3000 Frederica St., Owensboro, KY, 42301, USA

MaizeGDB is the community database for maize genetics and genomics. The success of MaizeGDB project largely can be attributed to the involvement of the community of maize geneticists: members of the community have (1) made their data available by contributing to MaizeGDB and (2) helped to guide the efforts of the MaizeGDB Team by giving lots of needed input. In an effort to make it possible for researchers to contribute their data directly via the web, we have developed and tested community curation tools which are now available for general use. This computer demonstration aims to serve as a tour of the new tools as well as a session to gather feedback for their continued development.