GrainGenes: Supporting the Small Grains Community

Funded with hard funds by USDA, GrainGenes provides long-term data sustainability for small grains researchers and hosts a range of community newsletters, databases, and digital workspaces for wheat, barley, rye, and oats. GrainGenes is a gateway for integrated access to several types of peer-reviewed and curated genomic, genetic, and phenotypic data, along with QTLs and other experimental outcomes. The availability of reference genome assemblies of wheat and barley, along with their diversity data, is making a significant impact at GrainGenes and we are creating genome-centric views on our interface with rich links to data that is already housed at GrainGenes, curated over decades. We recently updated the GrainGenes Genome Browser with JBrowse, and created training videos for our users to smooth the learning curve for the new interface. GrainGenes will continue creating/implementing new tools and views for the small grains community, supporting them in their research, and providing them a long-term repository for their peer-reviewed experimental and computational data.