Ouyang Shu, Zhu Wei, Hamilton John, Lin Haining, Campbell Matthew, Childs Kevin, Thibaud-Nissen Françoise, Malek Renae L, Lee Yuandan, Zheng Li, Orvis Joshua, Haas Brian, Wortman Jennifer, Buell C Robin
The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, USA.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2007 Jan;35(Database issue):D883-7. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkl976. Epub 2006 Dec 1.
In The Institute for Genomic Research Rice Genome Annotation project (http://rice.tigr.org), we have continued to update the rice genome sequence with new data and improve the quality of the annotation. In our current release of annotation (Release 4.0; January 12, 2006), we have identified 42,653 non-transposable element-related genes encoding 49,472 gene models as a result of the detection of alternative splicing. We have refined our identification methods for transposable element-related genes resulting in 13,237 genes that are related to transposable elements. Through incorporation of multiple transcript and proteomic expression data sets, we have been able to annotate 24 799 genes (31,739 gene models), representing approximately 50% of the total gene models, as expressed in the rice genome. All structural and functional annotation is viewable through our Rice Genome Browser which currently supports 59 tracks. Enhanced data access is available through web interfaces, FTP downloads and a Data Extractor tool developed in order to support discrete dataset downloads.
