What's New

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]

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).

Funding opportunities

• National Science Foundation
  • Advances in Biological Informatics (ABI) [HTML]
  • Advances in Biological Informatics (ABI) [PDF]

    Full Proposal Deadline: Aug. 23, 2010

  • Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS): Core Programs [HTML]
  • Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS): Core Programs [PDF]

    Full Proposal Deadline: Sept. 15 (medium projects), Nov. 28 (large projects), Dec. 17 (small projects)

  • Genes and Genome System Cluster [HTML]

  Full Proposal Deadline: Jan. 12, 2011

• National Institutes of Health

  • R01 new

    Application Receipt Date: Feb. 5, June 5, Oct. 5, 2010