Plant, Animal & Microbe Genomes X Conference Plant, Animal & Microbe Genomes X ConferenceJanuary 12-16, 2002
Town & Country Convention Center
San Diego, CA
Bioinformatics: Databases
GrainGenes, the Triticeae genome database, is the most comprehensive source of information on wheat, barley, rye, oats and sugarcane. Curated at the USDA/ARS/WRRC in Albany, CA, and maintained by the ARS Genome Database Resource (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY), GrainGenes is a central repository for information on gene and EST sequences, genetic and physical maps, DNA probes, germplasm, pathology, and other accessions. GrainGenes is a publicly accessible database, administered through the ARS Genome Database Resource (http://ars-genome.cornell.edu) and is made available through a WWW server (http://wheat.pw.usda.gov). GrainGenes may also be accessed through mirror sites at INRA, France (http://grain.jouy.inra.fr), the UK CropNet (http://synteny.life.nott.ac.uk) and Komugi, Japan (http://www.shigen.nig.ac.jp/wheat/wheat.html). GrainGenes now contains over 100,000 wheat and barley gene sequences and expressed sequence tags (ESTs), most with links to sequence records from other public databases like GenBank and the TIGR Gene Indices. Several new interactive maps have been added to GrainGenes in 2001 as part of a GrainGenes Mapathon. New additions to GrainGenes, including new maps, are reported in the What's New page and maps planned for addition are listed in the Mapathon page (http://wheat.pw.usda.gov/ggpages/ggmapathon.html). An open invitation is extended to the research community to suggest improvements, contribute data and develop tools to better serve this public database.