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).
 | Jinsong Liu. Hometown: Beijing, China. PhD in Bioinformatics, T-Life Research Center, Fudan University 2008. @ ISU since 2009, in Brendel Group since 2009. Research Focus: I am responsible for maize genome annotation in the Brendel Group.
My research interests include computational biology and bioinformatics and the application of mathematic theories and models to dealing with real data. My current research focus is on the development of gene and genome annotation tools, comparative genomics, repeat sequences analysis, and corresponding evolutionary studies. Recent Publications: Hao Wang and Jin-Song Liu (2008) LTR retrotransposons landscape in Medicago truncatula: more rapid removal than in rice. BMC Genomics 9: 382. Heng Li, Jinsong Liu, Zhao Xu, Huimin Xie, Weimou Zheng, and Bailin Hao (2005) Test Data Sets and Evaluation of Gene Prediction Programs on the Rice Genome. J. Computer Science and Technology 20(4): 446-453. |