Kbase Plants Update

The U.S. Department of Energy Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase, http://kbase.us) provides a computational environment designed to accelerate our understanding of microbes, plants and their communities. KBase offers free and open access to data, analysis tools, models and simulations, enabling scientists and researchers to design experiments, test hypotheses, build new knowledge, and share their findings.

This introduction will provide updates about the plant resources available in KBase that include tools for bulk upload and quality control of next-generation sequencing reads, multiple workflows for RNA-Seq alignment and assembly, and apps for differential expression analysis and visualization.

KBase online tutorials such as Expression Analysis (see http://kbase.us/tutorials/) provide a good starting place to explore how KBase might be useful in your research.