Plant & Animal Genomes XIV Conference

January 14-18, 2006
Town & Country Convention Center
San Diego, CA

Plant Genomic Resources At NCBI

Brian J Smith-White , Anjana Rainin , Sergey Resenchuk , Kirill Rotmistrovsky , Vyacheslav Chetvernin , Greg Schuler , Tatiana Tatusova

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

NCBI provides a rich environment of resources for plant genomics as well as the tools to readily move among these resources. We describe PlantBLAST, EST-BLAST, Entrez Probe and MapViewer. PlantBLAST provides organism-specific databases composed solely of the accessions associated with mapped loci visible through MapViewer. EST-BLAST provides plant-specific databases composed solely of the ESTs from those plants with more than 50,000 ESTs. Entrez Probe provides an archive of probes with associated information about the experimental application and results. MapViewer is the display engine for genetic maps, sequence maps, and physical maps from various organisms extending across the spectrum of those plants that are the subject of genomic investigations.