Title

PlantGI: a database for searching gene indices in agricultural plants developed at NIAB, Korea

Authors

Chang Kug Kim¹, Ji Weon Choi², DongSuk Park¹, Man Jung Kang¹, Young-Joo Seol¹, Do Yoon Hyun³ and Jang Ho Hahn^1,*

Affiliation

¹Bioinformatics Division, National Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology (NIAB), Suwon 441-707, Korea; ²Postharvest Technology Div., National Horticultural Research Institute (NHRI), Suwon 440-706, Korea; ³Genetic Resources Div., NIAB, Suwon 441-707, Korea

Email

jhhahn@rda.go.kr; * Corresponding author

Article Type

Web Database

Date

received April 02, 2008; revised April 22, 2008; accepted April 28, 2008; published May 27, 2008

Abstract

The Plant Gene Index (PlantGI) database is developed as a web-based search system with search capabilities for keywords to provide information on gene indices specifically for agricultural plants. The database contains specific Gene Index information for ten agricultural species, namely, rice, Chinese cabbage, wheat, maize, soybean, barley, mushroom, Arabidopsis, hot pepper and tomato. PlantGI differs from other Gene Index databases in being specific to agricultural plant species and thus complements services from similar other developments. The database includes options for interactive mining of EST CONTIGS and assembled EST data for user specific keyword queries. The current version of PlantGI contains a total of 34,000 EST CONTIGS data for rice (8488 records), wheat (8560 records), maize (4570 records), soybean (3726 records), barley (3417 records), Chinese cabbage (3602 records), tomato (1236 records), hot pepper (998 records), mushroom (130 records) and Arabidopsis (8 records).

The database is available for free at http://www.niab.go.kr/nabic/

Keywords

gene index; EST CONTIGS; identifier EST; database

Citation

Kim et al., Bioinformation 2(8): 344-345 (2008)

Edited by

P. Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics Publishing Group

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.