From jaiswalp from science.oregonstate.edu  Thu May  7 02:21:16 2009
From: jaiswalp from science.oregonstate.edu (Pankaj Jaiswal (OSU))
Date: Thu May  7 08:57:33 2009
Subject: [Maize] PlantGeneWiki Beta release
Message-ID: <4A028BEC.6080803@science.oregonstate.edu>

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PlantGeneWiki Beta release
Posted on May 6, 2009, 5:40 PM, by pankaj, under Community news, 
Database release, Gramene, Gramene news.

The Gramene database project team is happy to announce beta release of 
the  PlantGeneWiki. It is designed as an online community portal on 
plant genes and their annotations. Our goal for PlantGeneWiki is to 
generate community curated/annotated pages where the researchers can 
browse, search, read and manage the content by editing. Yes, the biggest 
advantage of them all is that researchers now have the ability to update 
and edit the information known about the genes identified in plants on 
their own without any delays. If you don’t find a gene of your interest 
in the PlantGeneWiki, you can add it as well. Any content you add/edit 
on PlantGeneWiki is released for instant online access and cites your 
contribution. Therefore a good starting place is to add/edit information 
on known genes.

PlantGeneWiki is freely accessible to everyone and you can help us make 
it better in following ways:

     * Share your knowledge by EDITING existing and/or ADDING new 
information to the existing gene pages.
     * Adding NEW GENE PAGES.
     * Adding links.
     * Correct and report our errors.

We encourage first time users to get familiarized with the portal and 
user/contributor functions by taking the Guided Tours/Tutorials.

The PlantGeneWiki website can be accessed from any of the following URL’s.
http://plantgenewiki.gramene.org/
http://plantgenewiki.org/


Pankaj Jaiswal
Web: www.gramene.org
      www.plantontology.org


-- 
Pankaj Jaiswal
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Botany and Plant Pathology
3082 Cordley Hall
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR, 97331-2902, USA

Ph.  +1-541-737-8471
Fax: +1-541-737-3573
Web: www.gramene.org
      www.plantontology.org

From triffid from iastate.edu  Fri May 15 16:19:03 2009
From: triffid from iastate.edu (Carolyn Lawrence)
Date: Fri May 15 16:33:33 2009
Subject: [Maize] Browse maize projects or add your own at POPcorn!
Message-ID: <6B478F7E-5795-4573-A867-B29161AFEAB7@iastate.edu>

Maize BioNet Members,

I am writing to announce that POPcorn, the Project Portal for corn,  
has been released!  It can be accessed online at http://www.maizegdb.org/POPcorn 
  or by clicking the link to POPcorn in the left margin of MaizeGDB's  
main page.

POPcorn is an NSF-funded project (DBI #074380) ancillary to MaizeGDB  
that currently provides a searchable database of maize projects and  
resources.  During Phase 2 of development, we plan to enable  
researchers to retrieve sequence data from multiple sources with one  
query - BLASTing lots of sources from one place!

Work on POPcorn began in February of 2009. It will be released in  
three phases over two years.

	Phase 1 (current)	Provide a searchable database of maize projects and  
resources. 	
	Phase 2 		Provide tools for sequence-based searching of participating  
maize projects and resources. 	
	Phase 3 		Provide behind-the-scenes tools to enable projects to  
transition their data to MaizeGDB when the projects are complete. 	

Upon completion, POPcorn will become a part of MaizeGDB.

Status
The initial set of searchable projects was released in April '09 and  
we are continuing to add projects to the searchable database.  We are  
in the process of setting up a forum for coordinating annotation  
efforts.

NOTE THAT WE ARE CURRENTLY HIRING A PROGRAMMER!  Apply online at https://www.iastatejobs.com/applicants/jsp/shared/frameset/Frameset.jsp?time=1242422222540 
  before May 30!

Thanks!
Carolyn Lawrence (PI), Taner Sen (coPI), and Ethy Cannon (Solution/ 
Application Architect)