The Genome Database for Rosaceae (GDR) is a curated and integrated web-based relational database. GDR contains comprehensive data of the genetically anchored peach physical map, annotated EST databases of peach, almond and strawberry, Rosaceae maps and markers and all publicly available Rosaceae sequences. Annotations of ESTs include contig assembly, putative function, simple sequence repeats, and anchored position to the peach physical map where applicable.

Our integrated map viewer provides graphical interface to the genetic, transcriptome and physical mapping information. We are also in the process of adding Rosaceae map data to CMap, a web-based tool that allows users to view comparisons of genetic and physical maps. ESTs, BACs and markers can be queried by various categories and the search result sites are linked to the integrated map viewer or to the WebFPC physical map sites. In addition to browsing and querying the database, users can compare their sequences with the annotated GDR sequences via a dedicated sequence similarity server running either the BLAST or FASTA algorithm.

Funding source : NSF PGRP - Award #0320544.

GDR Usage: Between July 2005 and June 2006, GDR had 262,284 hits by researchers from 44 countries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Estonia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India , Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Mexico, Morocco, Romania, Russia, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom and the United States.

How to reference GDR:
Sook Jung , Margaret Staton , Taein Lee, Anna Blenda, Randall Svancara, Albert Abbott , and Dorrie Main. GDR (Genome Database for Rosaceae): integrated web-database for Rosaceae genomics and genetics data. Nucleic Acids Research 2008, 36:D1034-D1040

Sook Jung , Christopher Jesudurai , Margaret Staton , Zhidian Du , Stephen Ficklin , Ilhyung Cho , Albert Abbott , Jeffrey Tomkins and Dorrie Main. 2004. GDR (Genome Database for Rosaceae): integrated web resources for Rosaceae genomics and genetics research. BMC Bioinformatics 2004, 5:130.

Other GDR publications:
S. Jung, D. Main, M. Staton, I. Cho, T. Zhebentyayeva, P. Arus, A. Abbott. Synteny conservation between the prunus genome and both the present and ancestral Arabidopis genomes. BMC Genomics 2006 7(1):8.

Kevin M Folta , Margaret Staton, Philip J Stewart, Sook Jung , Dawn H Bies, Christopher Jesdurai and Dorrie Main. 2005. Expressed sequence tags (ESTs) and simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers from octoploid strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa). BMC Plant Biology 2005, 5:12

Horn R, Lecouls AC, Callahan A, Dandekar A, Garay L, McCord P, Howad W, Chan H, Verde I, Main D, Jung S, Georgi L, Forrest S, Mook J, Zhebentyayeva T, Yu Y, Kim HR, Jesudurai C, Sosinski B, Arus P, Baird V, Parfitt D, Reighard G, Scorza R, Tomkins J, Wing R, Abbott AG. 2005. Candidate gene database and transcript map for peach, a model species for fruit trees.   Theor Appl Genet. 2005 May;110(8):1419-28.

Jung S, Abbott A, Jesudurai C, Tomkins J, Main D. 2005. Frequency, type, distribution and annotation of simple sequence repeats in Rosaceae ESTs.   Funct Integr Genomics. 2005 Jul;5(3):136-43.;