What's New

Recent publications:

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).

Rotation Students

ISU graduate programs typically require of their students research rotations of 6-8 weeks in three or more groups in their first year before selecting a home group for their research work. We host several rotation students each term. Meet some of them!

	Jenna Woody. Home town: Johnston, IA, U.S.A. BA in English, 2007, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. Graduate Program: Interdepartmental Genetics (Ph.D.). Rotation Dates: August 16 - ?. Research interests: Computational and statistical genomics. Rotation Project: To Be Determined.
	Daniel Standage. Home town: Augusta, Georgia, USA. BS in Bioinformatics, 2010, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. Graduate Program: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (Ph.D.). Rotation Dates: August 16 - ?. Research interests: Genome annotation, computational genomics. Rotation Project: To Be Determined.