Wilkerson, M.D., Ru, Y., and Brendel, V.P. (2009) Common introns within orthologous genes: software and application to plants Briefings in Bioinformatics, 10(6), 631-644. [abstract] [PDF]
PlantGDB News:Community-annotated maize gene models (see an example at ZmGDB) are now displayed at both MaizeGDB and maizesequence.org, by means of Distributed Annotation Service (DAS) (November 21, 2009).
Brachypodium distachyon browser: BdGDB, a genome browser for the model grass species Brachypodium distachyon, is now available, based on the JGI v1.0 8x genome assembly. The assembly displayed comprises 271.15 Mb arranged in 5 pseudochromosomes. Display includes gene models, splice-aligned EST, cDNA, PUT assembly and Arabidopsis and rice predicted proteins (October 30, 2009).
 | Yuanbin Ru. Home town: Beihai, Guangxi, China. BS in Biology, 1998, Peking University, Beijing, China. @ ISU since 2002, in Brendel Group since 2002. Program: Interdepartmental Genetics (Ph.D.). Research interests: pre-mRNA splicing. Most recent publication: Ru, Y., Wang, B.-B. & Brendel, V. (2008) Spliceosomal proteins in plants. pp. 1-15 In "Nuclear pre-mRNA processing in plants", A.S.N. Reddy & M. Golovkin (eds.), Springer, New York. |
 | Hong Lu. BS in Microbiology, Nankai Univ, Tianjinin 2001, @ ISU since 2004, in Brendel Group since 2005. Program: (Ph.D.). Research interests:Comparative Genomics, Motif Finder, Microarrays. Most recent publication: Hong Lu, Prabhu Patil, Marie-Anne Van Sluys, Frank F. White, Robert P. Ryan, J.Maxwell Dow, Pablo Rabinowicz, Steven L. Salzberg, Jan E. Leach, Ramesh Sonti, Volker Brendel, and Adam J. Bogdanove, Molecular Biology and Evolution (Submitted for publication); Wise RP, Caldo RA, Hong L, Shen L, Cannon EK, Dickerson JA. 2007. BarleyBase/PLEXdb: A Unified Expression Profiling Database for Plants and Plant Pathogens. In Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 406, Plant Bioinformatics - Methods and Protocols. Edwards D. ed. Humana Press. |
 | Liping Chen. Home town: Laiwu, Shandong, China. BS in Biotechnology, 2000, Shandong Normal University, Shandong, China. @ ISU since 2007, in Brendel Group since 2007. Program: Interdepartmental Genetics (Ph.D.). Research interests: pre-mRNA splicing. Most recent publication: Lex E. Flagel, Liping Chen, Bhupendra Chaudhary, and Jonathan F. Wendel (2009) Coordinated and fine-scale control of Homoeologous gene expression in allotetraploid cotton. Journal of Heredity 100(4):487-490. |
 | Hsien-chao Chou. Home town: Taoyuan, Taiwan. BS in Information Management, 1997, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. @ ISU since 2008, in Brendel Group since 2009. Program: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (Ph.D). Research interests: Gene annotation using next generation sequencing. |
 | Krishnakumar Sridharan. Home town: Thanjavur, Tamilnadu, India. B.Tech in Bioinformatics, SASTRA University, Tamilnadu, India. @ ISU since 2008, in Brendel Group since 2009. Program: Interdepartmental Genetics (Ph.D.). Research interests: Comparative and Functional Genomics, Transposon prediction. |
 | Yiming Zhang. Home town: Nanjing, China. BS in Biomedical Engineering, 2001, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. @ ISU since 2008, in Brendel Group since 2009. Program: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (Ph.D). Research interests: Prediction of pre-mRNA splicing variants using Machine Learning approach. |