The Cool Season Food Legume Database: An Integrated Resource for Basic, Translational and Applied Research

The Cool Season Food Legume Genome Database (http://www.coolseasonfoodlegume.org) is being developed to assist in translating genomics into crop improvement. The main objective is to facilitate cool season food legume breeding and research by serving as a genomic, genetic and breeding data resource. Although databases exist for the model legumes, the Cool Season Food Legume Genome Database is specifically designed to collect and centralize data for pea, chickpea and lentil while using data from the model sequenced legumes for comparison and further curation. The database is built using Tripal which provides simplified site development by mrging the power of Drupal, a popular web Content Management System (CMS), with that of Chado, a community derived database schema for storage of genomic, genetic and other biological data. In this presentation we report on current and future functionality including functional analysis, marker development and comparative genomics using the sequenced model legumes.