Plant & Animal Genomes XVI Conference

January 12-16, 2008
Town & Country Convention Center
San Diego, CA

Gramene: An Integrated Genomic Data Resource For The Cereals

Claire E Hebbard¹ , Shulamit Avraham² , Edward S. Buckler^{3, 4} , Terry M Casstevens³ , Bonnie Hurwitz³ , Pankaj Jaiswal¹ , Chengzhi Liang² , Susan R McCouch¹ , Junjian Ni¹ , Dean Ravenscroft¹ , Liya Ren² , Will Spooner² , Lincoln Stein² , Isaak Y Tecle¹ , Jim Thomason² , Chih-Wei Tung¹ , Doreen Ware^{2, 4} , Sharon Wei² , Immanuel Yap¹ , Ken Youens-Clark²

¹  Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, 240 Emerson Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA

²  Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1 Bungtown Rd, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 11724, USA

³  Institute for Genomic Diversity, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA

⁴  USDA-ARS NAA Plant, Soil & Nutrition Laboratory Research Unit, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA

Gramene is a curated, open-source, web-accessible data resource for comparative genome analysis in grain crops. The database provides agricultural researchers and breeders with invaluable biological and genomic information on rice and other grasses. Gramene's web interface has undergone many changes over the past year to improve data integration and retrieval.
Gramene provides information on genetic and physical maps, sequences, genes, proteins, genetic markers, mutants, QTLs, controlled vocabularies, biochemical pathways, genetic diversity and publications, and is accessed by researchers the world over. Tutorials and help documents provide users with an overview of how to conduct a search within each database. Database releases will be made twice this year.
The Gramene project (www.gramene.org) is a collaborative effort between the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (www.cshl.edu), the Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics at Cornell University (http://plbrgen.cals.cornell.edu/) and various national and international projects dedicated to cereal genomics and genetics research.