NAR Molecular Biology Database Collection entry number 853

http://www.phytome.org

Hartmann S., Lu D., Phillips J. and Vision T.J.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA

Contact tjv@bio.unc.edu

Phytome is an comparative genomics database designed to facilitate functional plant genomics, molecular breeding, and evolutionary studies. It contains predicted protein sequences, protein family assignments, multiple sequence alignments, phylogenies, and functional annotations for proteins from a large, phylogenetically diverse set of plant taxa. Phytome serves as a glue between disparate plant gene databases both by identifying the evolutionary relationships among orthologous and paralogous protein sequences from different species and by enabling cross-references between different versions of the same gene curated independently by different database groups. The web interface enables sophisticated queries on lineage-specific patterns of gene/protein family proliferation and loss. Batch homology searches and bulk downloads are available upon free registration.

Phytome is sponsored by the National Science Foundation Plant Genome Research Program (DBI-0227314).

Go to the abstract in the NAR 2006 Database Issue.

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