Plant Chromatin Database - ChromDB

[Rich Jorgensen]

Dear Clamydomonas Researchers:

We propose to expand the Plant Chromatin Database (ChromDB; 
www.chromdb.org) into a true community database for all plant 
biologists interested in the contribution of chromatin proteins to the 
biology of plants. Carolyn Napoli and I will submit a proposal to NSF’s 
Plant Genome Research Program to this end and would like to ask for 
letters of support from anyone who uses ChromDB, or would like to use 
an expanded ChromDB that will serve the whole community, rather than 
any particular project or constituency. We will extend annotation and 
curation of chromatin protein homologs to all plant species and provide 
means for integrating information across species in a phylogenetic 
context. (We have already begun to include and annotate Chlamydomonas 
chromatin genes in ChromDB.) In addition, we will be adding a wide 
variety of new features such providing sequence data in GFF format, 
presentation via a track viewer such as GBrowse, and presentation of 
edited, user-submitted curation. An editorial board with broad 
representation has been constituted to advise and direct ChromDB and to 
oversee user submissions of information.

Success of this proposal will depend on our ability to demonstrate and 
convey a sense of community interest and support. We would appreciate 
comments on the ways in which you find ChromDB to be useful, whether in 
research, teaching or both. We are also very interested in your 
suggestions as to what additional features would be desirable. If there 
are flaws or deficiencies you would like to see corrected, please let 
us know about these too. Your message can be as brief or as detailed as 
you like. We plan to submit our proposal on or about January 20, 2004.

Thanks in advance for your support.

Sincerely,
Carolyn Napoli, PI
Rich Jorgensen, co-PI
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