[Gramene-announce] Gramene database interim build 36b released

[Monaco, Marcela]

Dear Gramene Users,


The Gramene Team is pleased to announce interim release 36b. In collaboration with the Oryza Genome Evolution<http://www.genome.arizona.edu/> (OGE) project, the Human Reactome Project<http://www.reactome.org>, and Ensembl Plants<http://plants.ensembl.org/>, we are providing in this release:

* A new platform for comparative analysis of plant metabolic and regulatory networks known as the Plant Reactome<http://plantreactome.oicr.on.ca> (beta version) and currently prototyped with rice pathways.

* New whole-genome, EST alignments, and gene trees for Oryza barthii (WGS), O. granulata (chr3s), O. longistaminata (chr3s), and Leersia perrieri (chr3s).

* New variation data for Brachypodium sylvaticum from three populations from Corvallis (Oregon, USA), Spain and Greece, mapped to B. distachyon genome (Source: Jaiswal Lab.)

* Entry portal for PICARA<http://www.gramene.org/diversity/picara.html>, a new diversity tool<http://www.gramene.org/diversity/tools.html> to support data integration for GWA studies.


Other developments also featured in this build have been previously released as part of Ensembl Genomes 17 and include:

* Ensembl search functionality for Triticum aestivum<http://www.gramene.org/Triticum_aestivum> (bread wheat) genome sequence data.

* Variation data for Hordeum vulgare (barley) from four cultivars, Barke, Bowman, Igri, Haruna Nijo and a wild barley (H. spontaneum).

* DNA-derived synteny data between Solanum tuberosum (potato) and S. lycopersicum (tomato).

* Gene descriptions for Musa acuminata (banana) and stable identifiers updated for Vitis vinifera (grape).


A complete description of the contents of this new release is available in our release notes<http://www.gramene.org/db/help?state=current_release_notes>. Please let us know<http://gramene.org/db/feedback/send_feedback> if you have questions or suggestions.


Proud to serve the plant science community,

The Gramene development team

http://news.gramene.org/?p=1070

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Marcela K. Monaco, PhD
Gramene Project Coordinator
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Williams Building #5
Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11542