The IWGSC Reference Genome Browser, Data Mining and Beyond

URGI is a genomics and bioinformatics research unit at INRA (French National institute for Agricultural Research), dedicated to plants and crop parasites. We develop and maintain a genomic and genetic Information System called GnpIS that manages multiple types of wheat data.

Under the umbrella of the IWGSC (International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium), we have set up a Sequence Repository on the Wheat@URGI website to store, browse and query the data being generated by the consortium: http://wheat-urgi.versailles.inra.fr/Seq-Repository.

The repository holds the wheat physical maps and sequences, especially the gold standard IWGSC reference sequence of all the pseudomolecules. We set-up dedicated tools:

• a genome browser to display the reference sequence and his incoming annotations.
• a BLAST server to query the sequence and provide links to browsers.
• a InterMine datawarehouse to integrate the genomics data with genetics and phenomics data to go beyond.