Newly Designed Genome Database for Rosaceae (GDR)

A newly designed Genome Database for Rosaceae (GDR: www.rosaceae.org), with features such as a major genera and tools quick start in the homepage, has been launched. New features to quickly familiarize users with GDR data and functionality also include a dynamically generated data overview page browseable by data type and number and short video tutorials for the site overview, species pages and all the search pages. New data includes GDR generated datasets such as reference transcriptomes for Rosaceae genera that combines published RNA-Seq and EST data sets, and conserved syntenic regions among Prunus persica v2.0, Fragaria vesca v2.0, Malus x domestica v3.0p, and Pyrus communis v1.0. New genome assemblies and annotations along with GDR functional annotations are available, together with significant additions to map, marker and QTL data. Our effort toward data integration across databases, organisms and data types continues with development of Rosaceae Trait Ontology, curation of more data types with ontologies and developing interfaces that allow searching of integrated data more efficiently.