Exploring Gramene’s Comparative Genomics Datasets Using New Search Tools

Gramene is a unique comparative genomics resource that comprises genomic, pathway, diversity, and expression databases for economically important species across the plant kingdom.

I am excited to introduce and demonstrate a new search interface (http://search.gramene.org) that integrates data from these databases and helps users search, interpret and explore our data. You will see how the application proactively suggests appropriate terms as you type; shows an interactive distribution of result sets across genomes and species; provides statistics and enriched terms in the result set; and allows users to use details of a result to expand or narrow down a search.

The search interface uses a public web service (http://data.gramene.org) that is well documented and available for access from custom scripts. I will demonstrate how to construct simple queries and receive the results either in CSV or JSON format.

These tools are in active development and we would love to hear what you think about them and how you think they can be improved.