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Title

BBGD454: A database for transcriptome analysis of blueberry using 454 sequences

 

Authors

Omar Darwish1, L Jeannine Rowland2 & Nadim W. Alkharouf1*

 

Affiliation

1Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Towson University, Towson, MD 21252, USA; 2Genetic Improvement of Fruits and Vegetables Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA

 

Email

nalkharouf@towson.edu; *Corresponding author

 

Article Type

Database

 

Date

Received September 30, 2013; Accepted September 30, 2013; Published October 16, 2013

 

Abstract

Blueberry is an economically and nutritionally important small fruit crop, native to North America. As with many crops, extreme low temperature can affect blueberry crop yield negatively and cause major losses to growers. For this reason, blueberry breeding programs have focused on developing improved cultivars with broader climatic adaptation. To help achieve this goal, the blueberry genomic database (BBGD454) was developed to provide the research community with valuable resources to identify genes that play an important role in flower bud and fruit development, cold acclimation and chilling accumulation in blueberry. The database was developed using SQLServer2008 to house 454 transcript sequences, annotations and gene expression profiles of blueberry genes. BBGD454 can be accessed publically from a web-based interface; this website provides search and browse functionalities to allow scientists to access and search the data in order to correlate gene expression with gene function in different stages of blueberry fruit ripening, at different stages of cold acclimation of flower buds, and in leaves.

 

Availability

http://bioinformatics.towson.edu/BBGD454/

 

Keywords

Blueberry, database, 454, transcriptomics.

 

Citation

Darwish et al.   Bioinformation 9(17): 883-886 (2013)

 

Edited by

P Kangueane

 

ISSN

0973-2063

 

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

 

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.