Research

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).

Volker Brendel - Current Grant Support

(click here to see previous grant support)
DATES SOURCE AMOUNT (TOTAL COST) TOPIC PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
7/15/06 - 9/30/11
NSF DBI-0606909 $4,120,931
Cyberinfrastructure for (Comparative) Plant Genome Research through PlantGDB Volker Brendel
9/1/06 - 8/31/11
NSF DBI-0543441 $1,106,853
PLEXdb: Plant Expression Database Julie Dickerson, Iowa State University (VB - Senior Personnel)