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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Dear Curators,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Recently I came across the
RiceCyc database at <a href="http://www.gramene.org/pathway/">http://www.gramene.org/pathway/</a>,
which I found really interesting. We are working now on similar Medicago truncatula
biochemical pathways database. So far we have a preliminary MedicCyc (temporary
name for MedicagoCyc) and we are doing curation on 1.0 version. We are using
annotation from affy chip (about 60K of non-redundant Madicago truncatula
transcripts) for building first Medicago pathways. We are going to publish it
on our web page soon, but we would like to compare MedicCyc with yours RiceCyc
and AraCyc for unique datasets in plants. Manuscript, describing MedicCyc and
comparing the other databases is under preparation now, and we assume to have
it ready soon. On our web and in manuscript we would like to reference the
RiceCyc URL. For primary metabolism we are almost exactly reproducing from
AraCyc and RiceCyc. Our major interest lays in secondary metabolism, since at
The Noble Foundation we have real experts in this field (especially in
isoflavonoids and triterpene saponin). When the Medicago genome is released
(hopefully at the beginning of next year) and better annotation become
available, we will continue the MediCyc curation process.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>All the best,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=PL style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Ewa<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=PL style='font-size:10.0pt'>Ewa Urbanczyk-Wochniak, Ph.D. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=PL style='font-size:10.0pt'>2510 Sam Noble Parkway <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=PL style='font-size:10.0pt'>Ardmore, OK 73401 <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>Tele# 580-224-6151 (office)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>Tele# 580-224-6712 (lab)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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