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Title: MAIZE DB: INTEGRATED MAIZE GENOME RESOURCE. COMMUNITY CURATION, DATABASE INTEROPERABILITY, AND COMPARATIVE MAP DISPLAYS

Author
item POLACCO, MARY
item CHEN, S - UNIV OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA
item Coe Jr, Edward
item HANCOCK, D - UNIV OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA
item KROSS, H - UNIV OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA
item SCHROEDER, S - UNIV OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA

Submitted to: Maize Genetics Conference Abstracts
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 3/11/1999
Publication Date: N/A
Citation: N/A

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: MaizeDB has its beginnings in the volunteered efforts of the Maize Genetics Cooperation and its Newsletter (MNL), begun in 1928-30 to provide an integrated compilation of genetic resources and information for the maize genetics community. In addition to information presented in MNL, such as increasingly complex maps, listings of genes, stocks, colleagues, and references, MaizeDB encompasses phenotypes and agronomic traits, with images, QTL maps, integrated bins maps, reference-linking to database entities, raw map data, and QTL analyses. Since 1994, MaizeDB has extensively, and often reciprocally (GRIN, GenBank, SwissProt), linked individual records to other central repositories of: sequences (GenBank, SwissProt), references (Medline), germplasm (GRIN), other species-specific genome data (Arabidopsis, yeast, E. coli, RiceGenes, GrainGenes). Data are curated by staff at Missouri and by the Maize Genetics Stock Center (direct tentry). Data are extracted from literature and electronic files supplied b researchers and external databases. Planed new and enhanced community curation tools will permit (1) direct entry over the WWW by community experts to certain fields or files and (2) reciprocal and automated file sharing with high throughput maize projects. New tools to improve access to the database are planned: a graphical map viewer with comparative query and browsing tools; menu driven, user defined table construction; and real-time summaries of data, in response to community needs. See also L. Vincent et al. (this meeting). We will be requesting advice from all attendees via a questionnaire distributed at the meeting. Current status of tool implementation will be presented. Supported by NSF 9872655, the University of Missouri, and the USDA-ARS.