Webinar: GrainGenes: A Centralized Nexus for Small Grains Data and Communities

Presenter

Taner Sen, Lead Scientist, USDA-ARS/UC Berkeley, USA

Outline

As one of the US Department of Agriculture—Agricultural Research Service flagship databases, GrainGenes serves the data and community needs of globally distributed small grains researchers for the genetic improvement of the Triticeae family and Avena species that include wheat, barley, rye, and oat.

GrainGenes accomplishes its mission by continually curating enriched cross-linked data content following the findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable principles, enhancing and maintaining an intuitive web interface, creating tools to enable easy data access, and establishing data connections within and between GrainGenes and other biological databases to facilitate knowledge discovery.

GrainGenes assists the small grains research communities, collaborates with data generators and genome sequencing groups, and contributes to the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium, the AgBioData Consortium, and the International Wheat Initiative through the Wheat Information System (WheatIS).

References and Links

• GrainGenes https://wheat.pw.usda.gov
• Eric Yao, Victoria C Blake, Laurel Cooper, Charlene P Wight, Steve Michel, H Busra Cagirici, Gerard R Lazo, Clay L Birkett, David J Waring, Jean-Luc Jannink, Ian Holmes, Amanda J Waters, David P Eickholt, Taner Z Sen; GrainGenes: a data-rich repository for small grains genetics and genomics, Database, Volume 2022, 2022, baac034, https://doi.org/10.1093/database/baac034
• Michael Alaux, Sarah Dyer, Taner Z. Sen; Wheat data integration and FAIRification: IWGSC, GrainGenes, Ensembl and other data repositories. The Wheat Genome. Springer, Cham, pp 13–25, 2023. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-38294-9_2
• Boden, S.A., McIntosh, R.A., Uauy, C. et al. Updated guidelines for gene nomenclature in wheat. Theor Appl Genet 136, 72, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-023-04253-w

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