The Legume Information System (LegumeInfo.org) 2015

The mission of the Legume Information System (LIS) is to facilitate basic research and its application to crop improvement in the legumes, which are critical components of global food and agriculture systems.

There have been major changes in LIS in 2014. All new development is now happening at http://legumeinfo.org - replacing most of the functionality at “classic” LIS at http://comparative-legumes.org.

Eight genome browsers: LIS now hosts genome browsers for eight legume species: common bean, pigeonpea, chickpea, Medicago truncatula, Lotus japonicus, and soybean (via SoyBase.org) and wild peanut species Arachis duranensis and Arachis ipaensis (via PeanutBase.org). These are interlinked via precomputed synteny between each browser.

Diverse search methods: Search by sequence (BLAST or BLAT), or by keyword, and see results against any sequenced genome. Or search in the map and trait database for QTLs, markers, traits, publications, etc.

Gene families: Genes from Medicago, common bean, soybean, and wild peanut have been placed into ~13,000 gene families – based on and linked to Phytozome gene families. The families are searchable, and viewable as gene trees or alignments.

Integrated QTLs: QTLs from many studies (so far in common bean and peanut) have been collected and integrated into a common database, and projected onto composite genetic maps (in CMap) when possible. Templates for collecting this data are available. Contact us if you would like your data included!

LIS is funded by the USDA-ARS, and is developed and maintained jointly by the National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR) and the USDA-ARS at Ames, Iowa.