[Gramene-announce] Announcing Gramene database build 48b

[Jaiswal, Pankaj - OSU]

Database release notes:
http://gramene.org/release-notes-48b
http://plantreactome.gramene.org/?page_id=2035

Dear All,

The Gramene project (www.gramene.org) team is pleased to announce its 
release #48b highlighting the new version of Plant Reactome database 
(http://plantreactome.gramene.org/).

In this release the Plant Reactome database has expanded gene 
homology-based pathway projections to 58 plant species.

Notable newly projected species include wild ancestors of peanut, common 
bean (Phaseolus), chickpea, pigeonpea, cacao, Brassica oleracea, 
capsicum pepper, sweet orange, coffee, cotton, grape, date palm, 
Triticum turgidum (wheat BB), basal angiosperm Amborella, the 
gymnosperms Norway spruce and Loblolly pine, lower plants Physcomitrella 
and Selaginella, and green algae Chlamydomonas, to name a few.

In addition, we have added two new hormone signaling pathways from rice 
for salicylic acid and jasmonic acid and revised three previously 
curated pathways for Salicylic acid biosynthesis, Brassinosteroid 
signaling and Strigolactone signaling.

The Plant Reactome database continues to provide its users following 
features:

* Tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUXH9IIpnSU
* Search and browse pathways, reactions, compounds and gene products
* Data analysis tools
   *-Visualization of omics data
   *-Inter-species pathway comparison
*Advanced search features built on the Apache Solr platform
* RESTful API for programmatic access to Plant Reactome data


The Gramene database project is supported by an NSF award (IOS-1127112). 
Intellectual and infrastructure support for the Plant Reactome is 
provided by the Human Reactome award (NIH: P41 HG003751, ENFIN 
LSHG-CT-2005-518254, Ontario Research Fund, and EBI Industry Programme). 
The data is provided by our numerous collaborators from national and 
international projects and those available from Publicly available 
resources.

We hope that you are finding Gramene and Plant Reactome databases as 
valuable resource for your research!

Best wishes,
Pankaj Jaiswal
www.gramene.org