Plant, Animal & Microbe Genomes X Conference Plant, Animal & Microbe Genomes X ConferenceJanuary 12-16, 2002
Town & Country Convention Center
San Diego, CA
Bioinformatics: Software
Computer: Poster and Demo
We wish to announce a facility, available through the NCBI Web site Plant Genomes Central at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PMGifs/Genomes/PlantList.html, which presents genetic maps of plants with common loci of two adjacent maps explicitly indicated in the presentation. Also part of the presentation of the genetic map is a link to other pertinent information, such as any GenBank accession(s) associated with a locus. This facility is an extension of of the display engine MapViewer which was developed as part of the informatics component of the Human Genome Initiative. This resource currently has multiple genetic maps for barley, corn, and rice, and a single genetic map each for wheat and Medicago truncatula. An intrinsic capability of MapViewer is to allow display of the common elements within adjacently presented genetic maps. Current effort is to present a bin map for corn in anticipation of the effort in wheat to bin map more than 10,000 of the wheat nonredundant EST entities. The goal of the effort is to prepare a framework for those plants currently with only genetic maps but where chromosome sequence or transcriptome sequence is anticipated within the next five years - i.e. barley, corn, Medicago truncatula, rice, the Solanaceae, sorghum, soybean, wheat, and some commercially pertinent trees.