ASPB 2017 Booth

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Plant Biology 2017

Visit a collection of Plant Genomics databases and projects with resources for sequenced genomes, ontology development, genetic mapping, functional annotation of genes, mutants and phenotypes, genetic diversity, and bioinformatics tools. Representatives from the projects indicated below will be present to demonstrate tools for cutting-edge genomics and genetics research and to answer questions.

You can find us at Booth #215


Bioinformatics Mini-symposium

Plan on attending the Bioinformatics mini-symposium on Monday, June 26, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Plant biology researchers increasingly rely on databases and other informatics resources to organize, integrate and provide access to the flood of plant biology data now available. We will present the latest developments, data and tools for several important plant informatics resources.


Presentations:

  • Araport - Agnes Chan (J. Craig Venter Institute)
  • Gramene - Marcela Karey Tello-Ruiz (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Planteome - Laurel Cooper (Oregon State University)
  • KBase - Vivek Kumar (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • TAIR - Eva Huala (Phoenix Bioinformatics)
  • SGN - Hartmut Foerster (Boyce Thompson Institute)
  • AtRTD Splicing - Cristiane Calixto (James Hutton Institute)
  • BAR - Asher Pasha (University of Toronto)
  • PMN - Pascal Schlapfer (Carnegie Institution for Science)

Plant Genome Resources Outreach Booth

Projects with a representative on site

Gramene

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See Gramene's web page for more information: http://www.gramene.org

Gramene is a curated resource for comparative functional genomics in crops and model plant species currently hosting 44 complete reference genomes. Its strength derives from the application of a phylogenetic framework for genome comparison and the use of ontologies to integrate structural and functional annotation data. Gene evolutionary histories are provided in phylogenetic gene trees using a method that infers orthologous relationships and complements whole genome alignments. Variation data is available for 11 species, including Arabidopsis, rice, and maize, and enriched with variant effect prediction. Gramene hosts metabolic pathways databases developed in house or by our collaborators in the BioCyc platform, which facilitates uploading, visualization and analysis. Recently, we began annotating metabolic pathways using the Reactome model, and have released a beta version of the Plant Reactome, a platform for the comparative analysis of plant metabolic and regulatory networks, featuring at present over 240 curated rice pathways and orthologous pathway projections to 66 plant species. We also host many genetic and QTL maps contributed by the broad research community. Gramene is supported by an NSF grant (IOS-1127112), and works closely with EBI-EMBL, OICR, and ASPB.


An overview of the Gramene comparative genomics database as well as latest developments and future plans will be presented by Marcela Karey Tello-Ruiz during the Bioinformatics Minisymposium on Monday, June 26th at 11:30am.


Gramene talks & posters:


NNNGramene: Unifying Comparative Genomics and Pathway Resources for Plant Communities. Presented by Marcela Karey Tello-Ruiz

NNNComparative genomics reveals prevalence of coupled R-gene disease resistance systems in 11 species of the Oryzeae tribe. Presented by Joshua Stein

NNN – Presented by Yinping Jiao


Gramene representatives will be available to meet with users and answer questions at booth #205 throughout the meeting.


For more information please contact: Gramene Feedback


Funding: Our participation at this outreach booth is being made possible thanks to the funding support of NSF award #1127112 to "Gramene - Exploring Function through Comparative Genomics and Network Analysis".



Phoenix / TAIR

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See Phoenix's web page for more information: http://www.arabidopsis.org

The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) maintains a database of genetic and molecular biology data for the model higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Data available from TAIR includes the complete genome sequence along with information concerning gene structures, gene product functions, metabolism, gene expression, DNA and seed stocks, genome maps, genetic and physical markers, publications, useful tools, and members of the Arabidopsis research community. Gene product function data is updated weekly from the latest published research literature and community data submissions. Gene structures are updated every 2 years using computational and manual methods as well as community submissions of new and updated genes. TAIR also provides extensive links from our data pages to other Arabidopsis resources.

For more information please contact: curator@arabidopsis.org


AraPort

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Plant genomics has been an integral part of the JCVI legacy for many years. Starting with our work on the first sequencing project of a plant, Arabidopsis, we have expanded our activities to genome and EST projects for a wide range of plant species. These include rice, continued work on Arabidopsis, potato, maize, Medicago, soybean, tomato, barley, pine, onion, banana, various pulse crops (legumes) and several microbial pathogens that afflict important crops.


See the JCVI's web page for more information: http://www.jcvi.org/


The Bio-Analytic Resource for Plant Biology

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See BAR's web page for more information: http://www.bar.utoronto.ca


The Bio-Analytic Resource at the University of Toronto is a collection of web-based tools for exploring, visualizing and mining large-scale data sets, primarily from Arabidopsis thaliana but also from several other plant species.

These tools include:

eFP Browser (electronic Fluorescent Pictograph Browser) for painting gene expression and other information onto diagrammatic representations of the particular experimental series from which the data were generated. eFP Browsers are available for Arabidopsis, poplar, Medicago truncatula, rice, barley, soybean, maize, potato and cell.

Expression Angler for identifying co-expressed, anti-correlated, or condition/tissue-specific genes using the "custom bait feature" in 5 of the gene expression data sets from the AtGenExpress Consortium, from our in-house database or from NASCArrays, or several other data sets.

Expression Browser for performing electronic northerns.

Arabidopsis Interactions Viewer for querying a database of almost 80,000 predicted and 28,566 documented protein-protein interactions in Arabidopsis.

Promomer for identifying over-represented n-mer words in the promoter of a gene of interest, or in promoters of co-expressed genes.

ePlant: A suite of interactive web-based tools that enables users to explore Arabidopsis data from the kilometre to nanometre scale, including natural variation data, organ and cell-type-specific gene expression patterns, subcellular localization, protein-protein interactions, and protein tertiary structures predicted for ~70% of the proteome.

Next-Gen Mapping: Allows for the rapid localization of recessive EMS induced mutations within an F2 mapping population that has been pooled and sequenced en masse using a next-generation sequencing platform.


Funding: The BAR is funded in part by Centre for the Analysis of Genome Evolution and Function, grants from the Canada Foundation for Innovation to NJP, and from Genome Canada to the Arabidopsis Research Group at the Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto.


For more information please contact: Nick Provart (nicholas.provart@utoronto.ca)


Planteome

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See PO's web page for more information: http://www.plantontology.org


The main objective of the Plant Ontology Consortium (POC) is to develop, curate and share controlled vocabularies (ontologies) that describe plant structures and growth and developmental stages and plant traits. The overall goal is to provide a semantic framework for meaningful cross-species queries across databases. The Plant Ontology (PO) and the Plant Trait Ontology (TO) have been developed with the primary goal to facilitate and accommodate functional annotation efforts in plant databases and by the plant research community at large.

As a part of the PO project, participating databases such as TAIR, NASC, Gramene, and MaizeGDB have been using PO to describe expression patterns of genes and phenotypes of mutants and natural variants.

Come see Poster # P28002: The Plant Ontology: A Tool for Linking Plant Anatomy and Development to Genomics Across Plant Taxa.


For more information please contact: PO Feedback


GrainGenes

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KBase

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See KBase's web page for more information: http://kbase.us


The DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) is a collaborative effort designed to accelerate our understanding of microbes, microbial communities, and plants. It will be a community-driven, extensible and scalable open-source software framework and application system. KBase will offer free and open access to data, models and simulations, enabling scientists and researchers to build new knowledge and share their findings.


Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase)




Projects without a Representative On Site (Brochures available!)

SoyBase

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SoyBase, the USDA-ARS soybean genetics and genomics database, provides a comprehensive collection of data, analysis tools and links to external resources of interest to soybean researchers. SoyBase is an actively curated database, with new data regularly being incorporated.The data in SoyBase are provided through intuitive interfaces, and are linked together wherever possible to allow easy identification and browsing of related subjects. The SoyBase home page (http://soybase.org) contains the SoyBase Toolbox, which provides quick access to a search of SoyBase, access to the data download page, a genome sequence BLAST tool, direct links to the genetic and sequence maps, and quick access to the SoyCyc metabolic pathways database. Searching at SoyBase uses an underlying trait-based approach to return all information that is related to the search term. An extensive navigation menu and site description provides facile access to all sections of SoyBase. Numerous data types are available including genetic maps, the soybean reference genome sequence with annotation tracks covering genetic markers, genome organization, gene annotation and expression, and gene knockout mutants. SoyBase includes an extensive RNA-Seq gene atlas and innovative tools for identifying fast neutron-induced mutants affecting genes or which affect traits of interest. Several “omics” tools, for example a GO Term Enrichment tool, enable sophisticated queries and reports on lists of genes.

SoyBase can be publicly accessed at http://soybase.org



Acknowledgements

The Outreach Booth was possible thanks to volunteer organizer:

  • Marcela Karey Tello-Ruiz, Gramene