Introduction to the Gramene Website

The Gramene database (http://www.gramene.org) is a curated, open-source, web-accessible data resource for comparative genome analysis in the plants. The database provides agricultural researchers and plant breeders with invaluable biological and genomic information on several species of plants. This introduction will cover Gramene's web interface to searching and viewing genetic and physical maps, sequences, genes, proteins, genetic markers, mutants, QTLs, controlled vocabularies and scientific citations, genetic variation data, and biopathways.