Plant & Animal Genome V Conference
Town & Country Hotel, San Diego, CA, January 12-16, 1997.
PAG-V: W53 - MENDEL - A PLANT GENE NOMENCLATURE DATABASE
W53
MENDEL - A PLANT GENE NOMENCLATURE DATABASE
ARNOLD, BENEDICT CHARLES, Benjamin Giles Arnold, David M Lonsdale
John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Colney Lane, NORWICH NR4 7UH, United Kingdom
The Mendel Plant Gene Nomenclature Database has recently received funding from the European Community to develop a common nomenclature for sequenced genes in plant viruses, organelle genomes, photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic organisms,including fungi, algae and protozoa. Major Project aims include : To develop tools (in asssociation with Steve Beckstrom -Sternberg from NAL) to facilitate the retrieval of coding sequence data (CDS) from the sequence databases and facilitate their direct import into the Biology Workbench at the National Centre for Supercomputer Applications. Within the funding period to catalogue all known CDS's within the current version of EMBL of : Ribosome Inactivating Proteins Proteins involved in fatty acid metabolism Proteins associated with the light harvesting complex Peroxidases Histones Pathogenesis related proteins Glyceraldehyde phosphate dehydrogenases Cell cycle proteins Ribosomal proteins ATPases and ATP synthases All chloroplast and mitochondrial CDS's within Plantae and Protozoa All plant virus CDS's Nuclear genes in higgher plants involved in organelle biosynthesis All genes involved in plant development, in particular those involved in transcriptional activation and/or DNA binding Information on gene expression The intention of a systematic gene nomenclature system is preclude the propagation of gene names that give little or no information about gene function. Effectively this will mean quicker and easier search mechanisms for scientists working on similar genes both within and across species. It is hoped that by the time of the conference we will have in corporated a substantial number of organelle gene CDS's into the database, together with a smaller number of nuclear encoded genes.