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<div align="center"><font size=4><b>Gramene announces release of new
website layout.<br>
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Based upon the needs of and feedback from Gramene users, we would like to
announce the release of a new look to the Gramene <b>home page</b> and
<b>navigation
</b>(<a href="http://www.gramene.org/" eudora="autourl">
www.gramene.org</a>). <br>
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Gramene’s new <b>navigation</b> bar now uses drop-down menus and the
following navigation:
<ul>
<li> Clicking on the Gramene logo will return users to the Gramene
Home Page.
<li>All Gramene databases can be searched from the “Search” option on the
menu bar.
<li>“Genomes” offers a quick links for browsing the rice, maize and
<i>Arabidopsis</i> genomes.
<li>“Download” provides links to important download pages for
installation of the Gramene databases onto individual computers.
<li> “Resources” hosts links to our species pages, links page, rice
genome newsletters, glossary and “submit a term” pages.
<li>All Help files are listed under the “help” tab, including release
notes, tutorials, help files, FAQs and other documentation.
<li>The lower navigation bar offers quick links to available species
pages.
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Other <b>Home Page</b> features include:
<ul>
<li>Quick links to specific information, including species and data
specific information.
<li>Identification of the current Gramene release number and date.
<li>A general search option
<li>Gramene Tips
<li>Rice genetic News
<li>Gramene Outreach Calendar
</ul> <br>
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To learn more about Gramene Navigation, review the navigation tutorial
available at:
<a href="http://www.gramene.org/tutorials/navigation.html">
http://www.gramene.org/tutorials/navigation.html</a><br>
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Or attend a Gramene workshop:
<ul>
<li>At the Plant and Animal Genome XIV Conference on Jan 17, 2006
(<a href="http://www.intl-pag.org/14/14-gramene.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.intl-pag.org/14/14-gramene.html</a>)
<li>At the 31st annual Rice Technical Working Group meeting on Feb 25,
2006
(<a href="http://beaumont.tamu.edu/RTWG2006/GrameneWorkshop.asp?mt=gw" eudora="autourl">
http://beaumont.tamu.edu/RTWG2006/GrameneWorkshop.asp?mt=gw</a>)
</ul><br>
To read Gramene's most recent publication see <pre>P. Jaiswal, J.
Ni, I. Yap, D. Ware, W. Spooner, K. Youens-Clark, L. Ren, C. Liang, W.
Zhao, K. Ratnapu, B. Faga, P. Canaran, M. Fogleman, C. Hebbard, S.
Avraham, S. Schmidt, T. M. Casstevens, E. S. Buckler, L. Stein, and S.
McCouch (2006), </pre>Gramene: a bird's eye view of cereal genomes,
<font size=2><i>Nucleic Acids Research</i>, <b>34</b>, Database
issue <b>D717-D723</b></font>] at
<a href="http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/34/suppl_1/D717" eudora="autourl">
http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/34/suppl_1/D717</a>
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Claire E. Hebbard<br>
Gramene Outreach Coordinator<br>
G15 Bradfield Hall<br>
Ithaca, NY 14853<br><br>
607-255-4199 or<br>
607-255-3103<br><br>
<a href="http://www.gramene.org/" eudora="autourl">www.gramene.org<br><br>
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</a>Cereals are mankind's most important source of calories. Gramene can
assist in research on agriculturally important features in rice, maize,
wheat and other grasses.<br><br>
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