Maize 2016 Workshop
- Title
- Gramene - Comparative Plant Genomics Database Workshop
- Event Info
- Maize Genetics Conference 2016
- Date/Time
- Thursday, 17 March 2016, 3:30 - 4:30 PM EST
- Venue
- Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront, Daytona Room
- Speakers
- Doreen Ware & Yinping Jiao
- Organizers
- Marcela Karey Tello-Ruiz & Sushma Naitani
- Assistants
- Bo Wang & Lifang Zhang
Contents
About the workshop
The Gramene database is an integrated resource for comparative genome and functional analysis in plants. The database provides agricultural researchers and plant breeders with valuable biological information on genomes and plant pathways of numerous crops and model species - including maize - thus enabling powerful comparisons across species. During this workshop, we will demonstrate how to navigate the website and review the available resources at Gramene, including the newly curated pathways and orthologous pathway projections in the Plant Reactome, and the capabilities of the independent Expression Atlas resource for gene expression. In addition, we will introduce a new search tool and web interface that helps users search, interpret and explore our data. Besides maize, the current data release of Gramene contains an additional 38 reference genomes including sorghum, rice, wheat, barley, soybean, Arabidopsis, Brassicas, poplar, medicago, tomato, potato, banana, cocoa, peach, grapevine, Amborella, spikemoss, and algae. In recent years, Gramene has positioned itself as a resource for genome variation data, with focus on maize, rice, and Arabidopsis. The current release includes the maize HapMap2 (~55 million SNPs in 104 lines) and Panzea's 2.7 GBS (~720K SNPs in 16,718 lines) variation data sets. In the last year, we added new variation in barley, wheat, a wild species of rice, and EMS-induced mutations in sorghum. Also, maize specific annotation tracks include MAKER-P gene models, methylome signatures, genomewide long non-coding RNAs, and nascent transcriptomes. Besides curated rice pathways, the Plant Reactome incorporates pathway projections to 58 plant species, including maize, peanut ancestors, and the common bean. This workshop is open to the community of plant researchers and breeders; beginners, as well as frequent users of the Gramene database alike are welcome and encouraged to join. Attendees may bring their own data to work with during the workshop. Gramene is supported by an NSF grant IOS-1127112, and partially from USDA-ARS (1907-21000-030-00D).
Workshop material
- Slides
- Exercises
- Test data sets & URLs:
- Upload your own data & create custom browser tracks
- Test files at http://brie.cshl.edu/data/Zea_mays/
- Genome assembly conversion. Test file with RefGen_v2 coordinates
- File:Test qtls v2.txt
- BLAST exercise
- Sorghum variegatum Sh1 CDS in fasta: File:SvSh1 CDS.txt
Dr. Bo Wang of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory will also be giving a talk on "Unveiling the complexity of maize transcriptome by single-molecule long-read sequencing during the Maize Conference" on Friday March 18, 2016 at 9:15 AM.
Other resources
- YouTube webinars
- Past webinars:
- Intro to Gramene website (broad areas) & list of upcoming webinars. By Dr. Marcela Karey Tello-Ruiz
- Intro to Gramene website. Focus: Gene trees & homologues. By Dr. Marcela Karey Tello-Ruiz
- Overview of the Plant Reactome. By Justin Preece
- Genome browser: Overview. By Dr. Joshua Stein
- Genome browser: Identify gene trees & homologs. By Dr. Joshua Stein
- Maize resources in Gramene. By Dr. Marcela Karey Tello-Ruiz
- Rice resources in Gramene. By Dr. Doreen Ware
- Genome browser: Upload and display your own data. By Dr. Pankaj Jaiswal
- Arabidopsis resources & SNP data analysisBy Dr. Pankaj Jaiswal
- Plant Reactome: Analysis Tools. By Justin Preece
- Gramene BLAST. By Sharon Wei
- Variant Effect Predictor tool (via web browser and APIs). By Matthew Geniza
- Gramene Mart: Custom data queries. By Dr. Marcela Karey Tello-Ruiz
- Videotutorials from recorded PAG talks TBD
- Plant Reactome Update. By Dr. Sushma Naithani
- Upcoming webinars:
- Genome browser: Find genetic variation data. By Dr. Marcela Karey Tello-Ruiz
- New Gramene Search. By Joseph Mulvaney & Andrew Olsen
- Past webinars:
For the complete of original videorecordings, please see [Gramene YouTube channel]
Survey
- Please provide feedback for the workshop. We look forward to serve you better!
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/5J5P8VS
Internet Access
There will be free wireless internet access in the conference room.
Questions
For more information for the workshop, please e-mail Marcela Karey Tello-Ruiz: telloruiz@cshl.edu
Acknowledgments
The Gramene Project is a collaboration between Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), Oregon State University (OSU), the European Molecular Biology Laboratory - European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL - EBI), the Ontario Cancer Research Institute (OCIR), and the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB).
The Gramene Project is funded by the NSF award IOS:1127112 (IPGA: Gramene - Exploring Function through Comparative Genomics and Network Analysis).
Partial support comes from the USDA and USDA-ARS.