Plant & Animal Genome V Conference
Town & Country Hotel, San Diego, CA, January 12-16, 1997.
PAG-V: W48 - COMPARATIVE MAP DISPLAYS FOR THE GRASSES
W48
COMPARATIVE MAP DISPLAYS FOR THE GRASSES
CARTINHOUR, SAMUEL(1), DOUGLAS BIGWOOD(2)
1. Crop Biotechnology Center and , Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843
2. Department of Plant Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
Comparative mapping in the grasses has generated large amounts of evidence indicating that grass genomes are closely related. Although much of the data is not yet available in electronic form, comparative information is available in MaizeDB, RiceGenes, GrainGenes, SorghumDB and MilletGenes, all of which are accessible via the WWW. We are interested in using these resources to create an integrated view of comparative mapping. Specifically, we have designed a small database (called GrassDB) to store information which links data in different databases and implemented two comparative displays. The displays include a version of the "Oxford Grid" (John Edwards; Jo Dicks) and side-by-side comparative maps. The displays are written using Sun Microsystem's Java programming language and use the Jade library designed by Lincoln Stein and Jean Thierry-Mieg.