TIGR Plant Genomics

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Research in plant genomics at TIGR are centered structural, functional and comparative genomics of model and crop species as well as their pathogens. TIGR faculty and staff are involved at multiple levels in these projects including sequencing, annotation, and analysis of genomic data. A large component of our work involves construction of large, public resources for plant biologists such as the Arabidopsis Re-Annotation project and the Rice Genome Annotation project. As part of some of projects, we have developed outreach training modules for use in high school science and undergraduate teaching environments. A full listing of the modules can be found here.

The TIGR faculty and their research interests can be viewed here. TIGR Plant Genomics Staff can be contacted through the Plant Genomics Contact Page . Job openings in the TIGR Plant Genomics group can be viewed here.

Plant Genome Databases

We support multiple genome sequence and annotation databases at TIGR. For these genomes, we have annotated the sequences using a series of bioinformatics process that are well-developed at TIGR for plant genomes. These databases can be accessed through the individual project pages listed below.

Plant Functional Genomics Projects

Several projects at TIGR involve gene expression profiling using microarrays. Information on the arrays, annotation of the probe sets, and databases to support the expression data are available through the project-specific web pages listed below.

Plant Genomics Resources

We also provide computational resources to the public. This includes a BLAST server to support nucleic acid and protein searches of all plant genome sequence available at TIGR. This also includes transcript assemblies of all plant EST collections in Genbank in which there are a minimum of 1,000 ESTs. These are available for downloads and searches.

Plant Pathogen Genomics

We have been involved in a number of pathogen genomic projects includingsequencing of ESTs from fungal pathogens, sequencing and annotation of two Pseudomonas syringage pathovars, and in sequencing mitochondrial haplotypes of Phytophthora infestans. A recent project that just started is the Comprehensive Phytopathogen Genome Resource project.