<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Hello,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I noticed, while searching through your
Gramene database, that there are a number of Arabidopsis genes that are
apparently not present at all (eg At1g02790).</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Does this mean that these genes do not
have rice orthologs, or that they have not been evaluated in the Ensembl
compara pipeline?</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">There are other Arabidopsis genes that
are present, but do not have rice orthologues predicted - I take it that
these HAVE been evaluated, but that either there is no rice ortholog, or
it is impossible to predict the ortholog using the Ensembl procedure.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">thank you for clearing this up.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I am also interested in more information
on how far along the rice - maize gene orthology comparison is - I have
a copy of your latest paper from NAR, but it was unclear to me how exactly
the rice - maize comparisons were done. Can you point me to any help
information in the database? I would be particularly interested to
find out whether your database has information that would help define orthology
between the maize genes represented on the U. Arizona 70-mer oligo array
and rice, and possibly then on to Arabidopsis.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">thanks!</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">John</font>
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John E. Fowler<br>
Associate Professor, OSU Botany and Plant Pathology Dept.<br>
On Sabbatical at the EPA Western Ecology Division, Corvallis<br>
email: fowler.johne@epamail.epa.gov<br>
Phone: (541) 754-4866</font>