Poster: Genomic & proteomic resources

Abs # 902: The Gramene Database: A Comparative Genomics Resource for Cereal Grasses

Presenter:	Jaiswal, Pankaj , pj37@cornell.edu
Authors	Jaiswal, Pankaj  (A)   Ware, Doreen  (B)   Ni, Junjian  (A)   Yap, Immanuel V (A)   Ren, Liya  (B)   Zhao, Wei  (B)   Clark, Ken Y (B)   Ratnapu, Kiran K (B)   Schmidt, Steve  (B)   Fogleman, Molly  (A)   Buckler, Ed S (A)   Stein, Lincoln  (B)   McCouch, Susan R (A)
Affiliations:	(A): Department of Department of Plant Breeding, 240 Emerson Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA (B): Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1 Bungtown Rd, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA
Web Site:	http://gramene@gramene.org

Gramene (http://www.gramene.org) is a comparative genome mapping database for cereal grasses. Both automatic and manual curation are performed to combine and interrelate information on genomic and EST sequences; genetic, physical, and sequence-based maps; proteins; molecular markers; mutant phenotypes and QTL; and publications. Rice genomic sequence serves as a common denominator for mapping and comparing sequence across grass species. Comparative maps of rice, maize, sorghum, barley, wheat and oat are anchored to each other by a set of curated correspondences as well as by sequence similarity of ESTs and genomic markers. We use controlled vocabularies (ontologies) to describe rice genes, mutants, QTL, which permits users to query and make comparisons across taxonomic groups. All raw and integrated information, as well as software developed as part of this project, is available on the Gramene web site for use without restriction.