The Transplant Consortium – Tools and Resources for the Complex Genomes of Wheat and Barley

transPLANT is a consortium of 11 European partners gathered to address the challenges of complex plant genome data integration and to develop a trans-national infrastructure for plant genomic science. The project aims to establish and strengthen interconnections between plant genome data resources as well as to develop new platforms, common standards and tools to assist plant research.

The official transPLANT web hub can be accessed at http://transplantdb.eu/. Here, partner resources are registered and cross-linked and advanced search interfaces allow users to query distributed plant genome resources and make use of transPLANT services and tools.

Special focus of this presentation are the triticeae genome data resources hosted by transPLANT partners as a lot of data was generated here lately especially for wheat and barley.

MIPS PlantsDB (http://mips.helmholtz-muenchen.de/plant/genomes.jsp) is a genome database system for data retrieval, management and comparative genomics in plants. Data produced within the triticeaeGenome projects are managed and presented in the comparative framework of PlantsDB, such as results from the triticeae GenomeZipper analyses as well as data from bread wheat sequencing.

INRA URGI GnpIS (http://urgi.versailles.inra.fr/gnpis): The GnpIS portal project (Genetic and Genomic Information System) is a tool aiming to provide simple and fast access to the data located in all URGI databases.

EBI Ensembl Plants: Ensembl Plants (http://plants.ensembl.org) is an integrating portal for data from plant genomes, offering access to many data types, including user supplied datasets, through a standard set of interfaces. The barley genome, annotation, and variation data is represented in Ensembl Plants as well as the genomes of bread wheat and two of its progenitors (Triticum urartu and Aegilops tauschii).