So I’m all excited about the genome festival that I’m seeing, related to the publication of the new sequence version of corn. You can access the main paper in Science, and there’s a very neat diagram in figure 1 that is like looking across time at the sequence data and into the corn nebula. But [...]
Today’s tip of the week introduces you to Gramene, a great database of grass genomes including rice, corn, oats, millet, wheat and others. The database is full of serious data and genomic analysis tools for the grasses, but today we are going to show you something fun you could do with Gramene… plan your dinner. [...]
Sometimes it feels like “another day, another genome….” ’round here. But this one is big. Corn is such a major commodity–important in history, for our current food supply, and for the future. Today researchers announced the completion of the maize draft genome. You can view it here: The Maize Genome Browser http://www.maizesequence.org/index.html The browser appears [...]
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