Use menu bars at top and left to explore these and additional PlantGDB features. Or, scroll down to view Featured Highlights, a good place to start exploring PlantGDB.

What's New? [April - May, 2008] New transcript assemblies (PUTs) are available for maize (Zea mays) and rice (Oryza sativa Japonica and Indica groups), based on GenBank Release 163. New PUT assemblies are also available for four solanaceous species: Solanum chacoense, S. habrochaites, S. pennellii and Nicotiana sylvestris. See complete PUT list on the Assembly Progress Page. [April 17, 2008] GmGDB, the BAC-based browser for soybean (Glycine max), has been updated to include genomic scaffolds from the recently released soybean draft genome. The 3,317 scaffolds of assembly release Glyma0 (JGI), as well as BACs from GenBank, have been splice-aligned to EST, cDNA, PUT, probe, and predicted proteins from both Arabidopsis and Medicago. Predicted gene set Glyma0.1b from JGI is also displayed [April 17, 2008]. PpGDB, a new genome browser for moss (Physcomitrella patens) is now available, based on the recently-published moss genome sequence ( Rensing et al., 2008). The 2,106 scaffolds of assembly release v.1.1 been splice-aligned to EST, cDNA, PUT, and predicted proteins from both Arabidopsis and rice. Predicted gene set Phypa1.1 from JGI is also displayed [April 17, 2008]. AtGDB, the chromosome-based browser for Arabidopsis thaliana, has been updated to display spliced aligments to A. thaliana PUT assembly version 163a as well as EST and cDNA sequence from GenBank Release 163 [April 17, 2008]. View Previous News Items...

What's Coming? The ZmGDB genome browser for maize (Zea mays) is being updated to display spliced alignment to maize PUT assembly 163a, as well as to updated EST/cDNA datasets. A new track will display spliced alignment to sorghum predicted proteins [expected May, 2008]. ZmGDB continues to provide daily annotation of maize BAC sequences deposited to GenBank by the Maize Genome Sequencing Consortium (www.maizesequence.org). All-new Help Pages are under development for PlantGDB. The first Help modules to be released will cover Genome Browsers, Community Annotation / yrGATE, and TableMaker [expected May, 2008]. Plant sequence from GenBank Release 165 [expected late April, 2008] will be uploaded for parsing, indexing and PUT assembly, with availability at PlantGDB expected in May. The current PlantGDB sequence repository is based on GenBank Release 163.

Featured Highlights:

	Full-length or near full-length maize genes are identified and classified by gene family name. User contributed annotations are welcome! Learn more...
	PlantGDB regularly assembles ESTs into contigs for all species with a large collection of EST sequences. Learn more...
	How can I BLAST search against all plants, all monocots/dicots, or an individual species? Learn more...
	Aligning ESTs/cDNAs to genomic DNA reveals gene structure and alternative splicing. You can do this on-line using GeneSeqer.
	Are you looking for resources for plant genomics (e.g., class room material, on-line tutorials, fellowships, etc.)? Visit the Plant Genome Research Outreach Portal!