P996
Gramene: A Comparative Resource for Plants

Date: Monday, January 13, 2014
Room: Grand Exhibit Hall
Ken Youens-Clark , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Dixon, NM
Vindya Amarasinghe , Dept. of Botany & Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Palitha Dharmawardhana , Department of Botany & Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Pankaj Jaiswal , Department of Botany & Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Sunita Kumari , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, NY
Marcela Karey Tello-Ruiz , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Sushma Naithani , Department of Botany & Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Shiran Pasternak , Cold Spring Harbor Lab, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Justin Preece , Department of Botany & Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Joshua Stein , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Jim Thomason , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, NY
Sharon Wei , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Doreen Ware , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory/USDA-ARS, NY, NY
Paul J. Kersey , EMBL - The European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Helen Parkinson , EMBL-EBI
Gramene (http://www.gramene.org) is a curated data resource for comparative genome analysis a wide variety of plants. The database integrates information about genomic sequence, variation, biochemical pathways, and expression data. In release 40, Gramene launches an entirely new interface and infrastructure to support new queries and visualizations of data. Gramene is supported by a grant from the NSF and represents a collaborative effort between Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Oregon State University, Ensembl Genomes, and various national and international projects dedicated to cereal genomics and genetics research.