Wilkerson, M.D., Ru, Y., and Brendel, V.P. (2009) Common introns within orthologous genes: software and application to plants Briefings in Bioinformatics, 10(6), 631-644. [abstract] [PDF]
PlantGDB News:Community-annotated maize gene models (see an example at ZmGDB) are now displayed at both MaizeGDB and maizesequence.org, by means of Distributed Annotation Service (DAS) (November 21, 2009).
Brachypodium distachyon browser: BdGDB, a genome browser for the model grass species Brachypodium distachyon, is now available, based on the JGI v1.0 8x genome assembly. The assembly displayed comprises 271.15 Mb arranged in 5 pseudochromosomes. Display includes gene models, splice-aligned EST, cDNA, PUT assembly and Arabidopsis and rice predicted proteins (October 30, 2009).
 | Hong Lu. Home town: Tongling, Anhui, China. Previous Degrees: BS in Microbiology, 2001, Nankai University, Tianjinin, China. Graduate Program: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (Ph.D.). @ ISU since 2004, in Brendel Group since 2005. Research interests: Cis-regulatory elements, Gene expression, Comparative genomics. Publications: Lu, H., Patil, P., Van Sluys, M.-A., White, F.F., Ryan, R.P., Dow, J.M., Rabinowicz, P., Salzberg, S.L., Leach, J.E., Sonti, R., Brendel, V. & Bogdanove, A.J. (2008) Acquisition and evolution of plant pathogenesis-associated gene clusters and candidate determinants of tissue-specificity in Xanthomonas. PLoS ONE 3, e3828. |
 | Liping Chen. Home town: Laiwu, Shandong, China. Previous Degrees: BS in Biotechnology, 2004, Shandong Normal University, Shandong, China. Graduate Program: Interdepartmental Genetics (Ph.D.). @ ISU since 2007, in Brendel Group since 2008. Research interests: pre-mRNA splicing. Publications: Flagel,L.E., Chen, L., Chaudhary, B. and Wendel, J.F. (2009) Coordinated and fine-scale control of homoeologous gene expression in allotetraploid cotton. Journal of Heredity 100:487-490. |
 | Hsien-chao Chou. Home town: Taoyuan, Taiwan. Previous Degrees: BS in Information Management, 1997, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. @ ISU since 2008, in Brendel Group since 2009. Graduate Program: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (Ph.D.). @ ISU since 2008, in Brendel Group since 2009. Research interests: Gene annotation using next generation sequencing. |
 | Yiming Zhang. Home town: Nanjing, China. Previous Degrees: BS in Biomedical Engineering, 2001, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. @ ISU since 2008, in Brendel Group since 2009. Graduate Program: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (Ph.D.). @ ISU since 2008, in Brendel Group since 2009. Research interests: Prediction of pre-mRNA splicing variants using machine learning approaches. |
 | Krishnakumar Sridharan. Home town: Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. Previous Degrees: B.Tech in Bioinformatics, 2008, SASTRA University, Tamilnadu, India. Graduate Program: Interdepartmental Genetics (Ph.D.). @ ISU since 2008, in Brendel Group since 2009. Research interests: Predicting and Mapping Transcription Start Sites in plant genomes. |