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
8/1/07 - 9/30/10
ARS/USDA Specific Cooperative Agreement No. 58-3625-7-631 $109,664 Development of Novel Maize Sequence Access and Analysis Methods for MaizeGDB Volker Brendel
7/15/06 - 6/30/10
NSF DBI-0606909 $3,616,273
Cyberinfrastructure for (Comparative) Plant Genome Research through PlantGDB Volker Brendel
9/1/06 - 8/31/10
NSF DBI-0543441 $1,106,853
PLEXdb: Plant Expression Database Julie Dickerson, Iowa State University (VB - Senior Personnel)
5/1/05 - 4/30/10
NSF DBI-0501713 $3,779,502 A Two Component Activator/Dissociation Platform for Reverse and Forward Genetic Analysis in Maize Thomas Brutnell, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Cornell University
8/1/06 - 7/31/10 (Years 1-4 of 5)
NSF DBI-0604923 $4,916,039
(Years 1-4 of 5)
Genetic Mechanisms Regulating Inflorescence Architecture in Maize and other Cereals Sarah Hake, U.C. Berkeley (VB - Senior Personnel)
8/15/06 - 7/31/10
NSF EEC-0608769 $450,000 BBSI Bioinformatics and Computational Systems Biology Summer Institute at Iowa State University Robert Jernigan, Iowa State University