Plant & Animal Genome IX Conference

Poster: Databases
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RICEGENES 5.0: A PUBLIC ONLINE RESOURCE FOR THE RICE COMMUNITY

¹ United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Center for Agricultural Bioinformatics, Ithaca, New York, 14853, USA

² Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 14853, USA

³ Department of Plant Breeding, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 14853, USA

RiceGenes is a publicly accessible genome database developed and curated by the USDA-ARS. It serves as a resource for the international rice research community by providing a collection of rice genetic maps from Cornell University, the Japanese Rice Genome Research Program (JRGP), and the Korea Rice Genome Research Program (KRGRP), as well as comparisons with maps from other grasses (maize, oat, and wheat). In addition to information on molecular and morphological markers, the newly redesigned RiceGenes 5.0 contains QTLs, photographs of mutant phenotypes, hot links to GenBank, OryzaBase, and other online resources, and sequences relevant to molecular markers. New features include an extensive help system, quick queries, five new rice maps, a new maize map, and information about BACs and PACs relevant to genetic markers. Molecular markers developed at Cornell University can be referenced and requested via the RiceGenes website. The RiceGenes team is also involved in the development of new tools for rice genomic research to aid in SSR identification, primer design, and comparative mapping. RiceGenes 5.0 is accessible on the internet and for local download at http://ars-genome.cornell.edu/rice and from mirrors in Europe and Asia. The Korean Rice Genome Research Program also provides RiceGenes 5.0 in the form of a CD-ROM for Windows. The RiceGenes team is working with Lincoln Stein toward developing this resource into a comprehensive database called Gramene for comparisons between grass genomes.