PlantGDB Publications

  • Agrawal, A., Brendel, V. & Huang, X. (2008) Pairwise statistical signifiance and Empirical Determination of Eefective Ggp Opening Ppnalties for Protein Local Sequence Alignment. Int. J. of Computational Biol. and Drug Design, to appear.
  • Lushbough, C.M., Duvick, J, Dong, Q., Jennewein, D., Reynoldson, J. and Brendel, V. (2008) TableleMaker: An ad hoc Query Tool for Relational Databases. In H.R. Arabnia, M.Q. Yang, and J.Y. Yang (eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'08), Volume X, pp. xxx--xxx, July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. CSREA Press, ISBN x-xxxxx-xxx-x. [conference program]
  • Lushbough, C.M. & Brendel, V. (2008) An overview of the BioExtract Server - a distributed, Web based application for bioinformatic analysis. In H.R. Arabnia, M.Q. Yang, and J.Y. Yang (eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'08), Volume X, pp. xxx--xxx, July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. CSREA Press, ISBN x-xxxxx-xxx-x. [conference program]
  • Lushbough, C., Bergman, M.K., Lawrence, C.J., Jennewein, D. & Brendel, V. (2008) BioExtract Server - an integrated workflow-enabling system to access and analyze heterogeneous, distributed biomolecular data. IEEE Transactions Comp. Biol. Bioinformatics, preprint, Sept. 11, 2008, doi:10.1109/TCBB.2008.98.
  • Lu, H., Patil, P., Van Sluys, M.-A., White, F.F., Ryan, R.P., Dow, J.M., Rabinowicz, P., Salzberg, S.L., Leach, J.E., Sonti, R., Brendel, V. & Bogdanove, A.J. (2008)
  • Acquisition and evolution of plant pathogenesis-associated gene clusters and candidate determinants of tissue-specificity in Xanthomonas. PLoS ONE.
  • Sparks, M.E. & Brendel, V. (2008) MetWAMer: eukaryotic translation initiation site prediction. BMC Bioinformatics, 9, 381. [abstract] [PDF]
  • Tasma, I.M., Brendel, V., Whitman, S.A. & Bhattacharyya, M.K. (2008) Expression and evolution of the phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C gene family in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiol. Biochem. 7, 627. [PubMed ID: 18534862] [online article]
  • Agrawal, A., Brendel, V. & Huang, X. (2008) Pairwise statistical significance versus database statistical significance for local alignment of protein sequences. In I.I. M&#259ndoiu, R. Sunderraman & A.Z. Zelikovsky (eds.), 2008 International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, May 6-9, 2008, Georgia State University, Atlanta GA, U.S.A.. Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics 4983, 50-61. [online abstract]
  • Ru, Y., Wang, B.-B. & Brendel, V. (2008) Spliceosomal proteins in plants. In Nuclear pre-mRNA processing in plants, A.S.N. Reddy & M. Golovkin (eds.), Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology 326, 1-15. [PDF]
  • Wang, B.-B., O'Toole, M., Brendel, V. & Young, N.D. (2008) Cross-species EST alignments reveal novel and conserved alternative splicing events in legumes. BMC Plant Biol. 8:17. [PubMed ID: 18282305] [online article]
  • Duvick, J., Fu, A., Muppirala, U., Sabharwal, M., Wilkerson, M.D., Lawrence, C.J., Lushbough, C. & Brendel, V. (2008) PlantGDB: a resource for comparative plant genomics. Nucl. Acids Res. 36, D959-D965. [PubMed ID: 18063570] [online article]
  • Lushbough, C.M., Bergman, M.K., Lawrence, C.J., Jennewein, D. & Brendel, V. (2007)
  • Creating bioinformatic workflows within the BioExtract server. In H.R. Arabnia, M.Q. Yang, and J.Y. Yang (eds.), Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'07), Volume II, pp. 316-322, June 25-28, 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. CSREA Press, ISBN 1-60132-041-8. Journal version: Int. J. of Computational Biol. and Drug Design, 1(3), 302-312 (to appear).
  • Brendel, V., Kurtz, S. & Pan, X. (2007) Visualization of syntenic relationships with SynBrowse. In N.H Bergman (ed.), Comparative Genomics, Volume II. Methods in Molecular Biology 396, 153-163. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. [PubMed ID: 18025692 ] [Publisher's Web site]
  • Brendel, V. (2007) Gene structure annotation at PlantGDB. In D. Edwards (ed.), Plant Bioinformatics: Methods and Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology 406, 519-531. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. [PubMed ID: 18287710 ] [Publisher's Web site]
  • Sparks, M.E., Brendel, V. & Dorman, K.S. (2007) Markov model variants for appraisal of coding potential in plant DNA. In I. Mandoiu & A. Zelikovsky (eds.), 2007 International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, May 7-10, 2007, Georgia State University, Atlanta GA, U.S.A.. Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics 4463, 394-405. [online article] [conference proceedings]
  • Dong, Q., Wilkerson, M.D. & Brendel, V. (2007) Tracembler - software for in silico chromosome walking in unassembled genomes. BMC Bioinformatics 8, 151. [PubMed ID: 17490482] [online abstract]
  • Schlueter S.D., Wilkerson M.D., Dong Q., & Brendel V. (2006) xGDB: open-source computational infrastructure for the integrated evaluation and analysis of genome features. Genome Biol. 7(11): R111. [PubMed ID: 17116260] [online article]
  • Wilkerson, M.D., Schlueter, S.D. & Brendel, V. (2006) yrGATE: a web-based gene-structure annotation tool for the identification and dissemination of eukaryotic genes. Genome Biol. 7, R58. [PubMed ID: 16859520]
  • Wang, B.-B. & Brendel, V. (2006) Genome-wide comparative analysis of alternative splicing in plants. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103, 7175-7180. [PubMed ID: 16632598]
  • Wang, B.-B. & Brendel, V. (2006) Molecular characterization and phylogeny of U2AF1 homologs in plants. Plant Physiol. 140, 624-636. [PubMed ID: 16407443]
  • Gremme, G., Brendel, V., Sparks, M.E. & Kurtz, S. (2005) Engineering a software tool for gene structure prediction in higher organisms. Information Software Technol. 47, 965-978. [online abstract]
  • Brendel, V. (2005) Novel tools for plant genome annotation and applications to Arabidopsis and rice. In J.P. Gustafson, R. Shoemaker & J.W. Snape (eds.), Genome Exploitation: Data Mining the Genome, Stadler Genetics Symposia Series, 23rd Symposium, Springer, NY, U.S.A. [Publisher's Web site]
  • Sparks, M.E. & Brendel, V. (2005) Incorporation of splice site probability models for non-canonical introns improves gene structure prediction in plants. Bioinformatics 21, iii20-iii30. [PubMed ID: 16306388]
  • Dong, Q., Lawrence, C.J., Schlueter, S.D., Wilkerson, M.D., Kurtz, S., Lushbough, C. & Brendel, V. (2005) Comparative plant genomics resources at PlantGDB. Plant Physiol. 139, 610-618. [PubMed ID: 16219921]
  • Pan, X., Stein, L. & Brendel, V. (2005) SynBrowse: a synteny browser for comparative sequence analysis. Bioinformatics 21, 3461-3468. [PubMed ID: 15994196]
  • Lawrence, C.J., Seigfried, T.E. & Brendel, V. (2005) MaizeGDB - the community resource for access to diverse maize data. Plant Physiol. 138, 55-58. [PubMed ID: 15888678]
  • Dong, Q., Kroiss, L., Oakley, F.D., Wang, B.-B. & Brendel, V. (2005) Comparative EST analyses in plant systems. In Molecular Evolution: Producing the Biochemical Data, E.A. Zimmer and E.H. Roalson (eds.), Methods Enzymol. 395, 400-418. [PubMed ID: 15984049] [online abstract]
  • Brendel, V. (2005) Gene structure prediction in plant genomes. In M.J. Dunn, L.B. Jorde, P.F.R. Little and S. Subramaniam (eds.), Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics, Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK. DOI: 10.1002/047001153X.g402303.
  • Dong, Q. & Brendel, V. (2005) Computational identification of related proteins: BLAST, PSI-BLAST, and other tools. In J.M. Walker (ed.), The Proteomics Protocols Handbook, Humana Press, U.S.A., pp. 555-570. [Publisher's Web site]
  • Schlueter, S.D., Wilkerson, M.D., Huala, E., Rhee, S.Y. & Brendel, V. (2005) Community-based gene structure annotation for the Arabidopsis thaliana genome. Trends Plant Sci. 10, 9-14. [PubMed ID: 15642518]
  • Wang, B.-B. & Brendel, V. (2004) The ASRG database: identification and survey of Arabidopsis thaliana genes involved in pre-mRNA splicing. Genome Biol. 5, R102. [PubMed ID: 15575968] [ online article]
  • Fernandes, J.F., Dong, Q., Schneider, B., Morrow, D.J., Nan, G.-L., Brendel, V. & Walbot, V. (2004) Genome-wide mutagenesis of Zea mays L. using RescueMu transposons. Genome Biol. 5, R82. [PubMed ID: 15461800]
  • Brendel, V., Pan, X. & Sparks, M.E. (2004) Bioinformatics: The interpretation of genomic information. In R.F. Wilson, H.T. Stalker and C. Brummer (eds.), Legume Crop Genomics, pp. 255-266. Am. Oil Chem. Soc. Press, Champaign, IL, U.S.A.
  • Baran, S., Lawrence, C.J. & Brendel, V. (2004) PGROP - A gateway to plant genome research 'outreach' programs and activities. Plant Physiol. 134, 889. [PubMed ID: 15020751]
  • Brendel, V., Xing, L. & Zhu, W. (2004) Gene structure prediction from consensus spliced alignment of multiple ESTs matching the same genomic locus. Bioinformatics 20, 1157-1169. [PubMed ID: 14764557]
  • Lawrence, C.J., Dong, Q., Polacco, M.L., Seigfried, T.E. & Brendel, V. (2004) MaizeGDB, the community database for maize genetics and genomics. Nucl. Acids Res. 32, D393-D397. [PubMed ID: 14681441]
  • Dong, Q., Schlueter, S.D. & Brendel, V. (2004) PlantGDB, plant genome database and analysis tools. Nucl. Acids Res. 32, D354-D359. [PubMed ID: 14681433]
  • Kalyanaraman, A., Aluru, S., Brendel, V. & Kothari, S. (2003) Space and time efficient parallel algorithms and software for EST clustering. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 14, 1209-1221.
  • Dong Q, Lawrence CJ, Schlueter SD, Wilkerson MD, Kurtz S, Lushbough C, Brendel V. (2005) Comparative Plant Genomics Resources at PlantGDB. Plant Physiology, 139, 610-618.
  • Dong,Q., Schlueter,S.D. and Brendel,V. (2004) PlantGDB, plant genome database and analysis tools. Nucleic Acids Res., 32, D354-D359.
  • Schlueter,S.D., Dong,Q. and Brendel,V. (2003) GeneSeqer@PlantGDB: gene structure prediction in plant genomes. Nucleic Acids Res., 31, 3597-3600.
  • Zhu,W. and Brendel,V. (2003) Identification, characterization, and molecular phylogeny of U12-dependent introns in the Arabidopsis thaliana genome. Nucleic Acids Res., 31, 4561-4572.
  • Zhu,W., Schlueter,S.D. and Brendel,V. (2003) Refined annotation of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome by complete EST mapping. Plant Physiology, 132, 469-484.

New & Noteworthy

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New flanking Ds sequences May 8
85 new Ds-flanking sequences (fDs) have been placed in the maize reference genome. Visit the Ac/Ds Tagging project pages to search by region or gene to identify transposon insertions close to a gene of interest. (5-8-2011).
New Transcript Assemblies May 3
New and refreshed transcript assemblies (PUTs) based on GenBank Release 183.0 are now available from our EST Cluster page (May 3, 2011).

New/refreshed PUT assemblies: View all PUT assemblies on our EST Assembly Data Page.(5-3-2011)
GenBank Release 183 Apr. 28
GenBank Release 183.0 sequence data (close date 4-11-2011) have been downloaded and processed at PlantGDB; new blast indices will be in place by early May. New PUT Assemblies based on Release 183 are also in progress.(4-28-2011)
"All GDB" Table Improved Apr. 20
The "All GDB" page listing genome browsers available at PlantGDB has been expanded to include links to most features and tools available for each genome. (4-20-2011).
SbGDB (Sorghum bicolor) genome update Apr.20
SbGDB (Sorghum bicolor; sorghum), a chromosome-based genome database at PlantGDB, has been updated with new splice-aligned transcripts current as of GenBank Release 181.0. Genome assembly and annotation remain the same. (4-20-2011)
"All Loci/Annotations" Feature Release Apr. 14
The "All Loci/Annotations" page presents an ordered list of published gene loci and their EST/cDNA coverage/quality, together with any community annotations at that locus. Users can search by quality, keyword or region to find loci to re-annotate. (See example for GmGDB.) From the Top Menu choose Genomes → [XxGDB], Left Menu → All Loci/Annotations. Also available are custom "project" filters to facilitate annotation of the most interesting genes. Contact us for more info on adding projects. (4-14-2011).
PeGDB - Prunus (peach) new genome browser Apr. 14
PeGDB, a new genome database for peach (Prunus persica) is now available at PlantGDB (Genomes->Dicots->PeGDB). Based on the JGI draft genome, PeGDB includes 27864 protein-coding loci and 28702 protein-coding transcripts on 202 scaffolds. Other data displayed include splice-aligned cDNAs, EST and PUTs, and splice-aligned related species proteins. (4-14-2011)
CpGDB (Carica papaya) genome update Apr. 14
CpGDB (Carica payaya; papaya), a scaffold-based genome database at PlantGDB, has been updated with new gene model annotations from JGI and new splice-aligned transcripts current as of GenBank Release 181.0. Total of 27,796 transcripts; 27,332 protein-coding loci. Genome assembly remains the same. (4-14-2011)
GmGDB - Glycine max (soybean) genome update Apr. 14
GmGDB, a genome database for soybean (Glycine max) has been updated to display new EST and cDNA alignments (GenBank Release 181). GmGDB is based on the JGI-released draft genome and displays 46,367 protein-coding loci and 55,787 protein-coding transcripts on 20 pseudochromosomes (plus unlinked scaffolds which are concatenated and displayed as "chr21") (4-14-2011)

What's Coming?

Selaginella and Solanum genomes
Two additional genome databases are slated for release soon at PlantGDB:
  • SmGDB :Selaginella moellendorfii (Spike Moss), a scaffold-based genome assembly from JGI
  • SlGDB: Solanum lycopersici (tomato), a scaffold-based genome assembly from solgenomics.net
(4-20-2011)

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