Plant, Animal & Microbe Genomes X Conference

January 12-16, 2002
Town & Country Convention Center
San Diego, CA

Bioinformatics: Databases
           Computer: Poster and Demo

GRAMENE: A RESOURCE FOR COMPARATIVE GRASS GENOMICS

¹ Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724

² Department of Plant Breeding, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853-1901

³ USDA-ARS Center for Agricultural Bioinformatics, 626 Rhodes Hall, Cornell Theory Center, Ithaca, NY 14853

Gramene (http://www.gramene.org) is a comparative genome mapping database for grasses and a community resource for rice that has been funded by grants from the USDA-IFAFS and USDA-ARS. Rice, in addition to being an economically important crop, is also a model monocot for understanding other agronomically important grass genomes. Gramene replaces the existing AceDB database RiceGenes with a relational database based on Oracle. Gramene provides curated and integrative information about maps, sequence, genes, genetic markers, mutants, QTLs, controlled vocabularies and publications. The Gramene project will use the rice genetic, physical and sequence maps as fundamental organizing units to provide a common denominator for moving from one crop grass to another and serve as a portal for interconnecting with other web-based crop grass resources