AgBase

The AgBase database is a multispecies database that provides annotations, tools and support for agricultural researchers. We currently provide 1,434,607 Gene Ontology (GO) annotations for 530 agricultural species and their pathogens, including manual curation of literature for key species. We also provide online tools to assist researchers with doing their own functional annotation and functional analysis of omics data sets and are linking these tools and workflows with CyVerse to provide support for analysis of larger data sets. The intended audience for AgBase are agricultural researchers who have generated functional genomics data sets and wish to understand how this data can be leveraged to improve agricultural production. A typical use case would be entering a list of transcripts to identify which have GO annotation, analysis to add GO for this list and summarizing the function for these differentially expressed gene products. Researchers may also use existing tools (provided elsewhere) to do functional enrichment analyses with this data. We will discuss funding sources for the development and maintenance of the AgBase database, including funding support for future activities.