GDR Newsletters
Welcome to the third issue of the GDR newsletter. This newsletter is issued quarterly to inform users about new or updated data and features in GDR and community related news. Please feel free to provide feedback and news either directly by email or via our online form. A PDF version of the newletter is available as are previous editions.
What's new at GDR?
1. Updates GDR web address change
2. Updates
to the peach transcriptome map
3. Anchored genes and ESTs are displayed in genetic maps in CMap
4. New EST data
5. Run InterProScan directly from the EST detail page
6. Bulk EST search and download available
7. Abstracts and powerpoint presentations of NRI
funded projects now available
What's new at GDR?
1. GDR web address change.
GDR is now accessible at the following URL: http://dev.bioinfo.wsu.edu/gdr/. At the current time this URL will still redirect to http://www.mainlab.clemson.edu/gdr while we move the database over fully to the new web address. In all future web references to GDR please use the URL http://dev.bioinfo.wsu.edu/gdr/
2. Updates to the peach transcriptome
map.
Unique peach ESTs are being hybridized to peach BACs to map the ESTs onto the genetically anchored peach physical map. 569 peach unigenes are anchored to various Rosaceae genetic maps. 367 of them are anchored by direct hybridization to genetically anchored BACs and the rest (202) are anchored by hybridization to BACs that belong to genetically anchored BAC contigs. 375 unigenes are anchored to the TxE map. The GDR map viewer and the downloadable peach transcriptome data reflects the updated peach transcriptome map.
3. Anchored genes and ESTs are displayed in genetic maps in CMap.
The 25 major genes affecting agronomic characters, anchored to TxE (Dirlewanger et al, 2004), are now displayed in TxE map in CMap. Peach ESTs are also displayed by the markers with which they share BACs or BAC contigs by hybridization in eight Prunus genetic maps. The anchored ESTs and markers in CMap are linked to the GDR detail pages. View an example CMap page.
4. New EST data
A new peach EST dataset sequenced by Elisa Vendramin from the CRA Istituto Sperimentale per la Frutticoltura is now available online. A total of 1667 clones from peach fruit mesocarp have been analyzed. Assembly of these ESTs produced 1116 putative unigenes for this data set.
5.
Run protein motif and domain searches using InterProScan.
Users can now search ESTs against the European Bioinformatics Institutes InterPro database directly from GDR. InterPro is a database of protein families, domains and functional sites in which identifiable features found in known proteins can be applied to translated ESTs. Finding functional domains in a EST may corroborate the putative function obtained by sequence homology or provide more information for ESTs with no homology to other known proteins. Our site programmatically accesses EBI's InterProScan so users can query InterPro without uploading EST sequences at the EBI's site. To access an example EST page, go to http://www.mainlab.clemson.edu/java/gdr/EST.jsp?CloneName_Result=PP_LEa0002H11f and run InterProScan.
6. Bulk search available in EST
search pages.
A bulk search is now available for peach, almond, strawberry, and GenBank rosaceae EST datasets. Users can upload a file with multiple clone names or Genbank accession numbers and have returned to them the sequence and homology information associated with those sequences. All EST searches will now return downloadable files of fasta formatted sequence and homology results.
7. Abstracts and
powerpoint presentations of NRI
funded projects..
View and download all the abstracts and powerpoint presentation of the NRI funded projects presented at the recent ASHS meeting. Many thanks to the authors and Dr Ed Kaleikau for providing us with this information.
Community News
1. International Symposium on Biotechnology of Temperate Fruit Crops and Tropical Species, Daytona Beach, FL USA, October 10-14, 2005.
2. Fruit and Nut Workshop, Saturday January 14, 8 am-12 pm. Plant and Animal Genome Conference XIV, San Diego, January 14-18, 2006. Conference organizer: Dr Amy Iezzoni.
2. 3rd International Rosaceae Genomics Conference in Napier, New Zealand, March 19-23, 2006
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