Plant & Animal Genome V Conference
Town & Country Hotel, San Diego, CA, January 12-16, 1997.
PAG-V: W54 - MENDEL AT THE WORKBENCH: LET THE CODING SEQUENCES SPEAK
W54
MENDEL AT THE WORKBENCH: LET THE CODING SEQUENCES SPEAK
BECKSTROM-STERNBERG, STEPHEN M.(1), D. Curtis Jamison(1), Danh Thuong Vo(1), David Lonsdale(2)
1. Genome Informatics Group, USDA, NAL, ISD, 10301 Baltimore Blvd., Beltsville, MD 20705-2351
2. John Innes Centre
The Mendel database is undergoing a quiet transformation from a simple lookup tool to a powerful analysis tool for plant genes. Up to this point, there has been no easy way to automatically export sequences from Mendel into sequence analysis tools. The advent of NCSA's Biology Workbench, a WWW interface to a powerful suite of nucleic acid and protein sequence analysis tools, provides us with a unique opportunity to easily transfer sequences. We have developed a new Java interface using Jade (see Bigwood et al. abstract) which allows the Mendel user to select any number of protein or nucleic acid sequences within and among gene families in Mendel and export them to the Biology Workbench. Computational analyses can then be performed using the NCSA computer resources supporting the Biology Workbench.