He Ximiao, Wang Jun
Beijing Genomics Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Methods Mol Biol. 2007;406:275-99. doi: 10.1007/978-1-59745-535-0_13.
Rice serves as both a staple for over half of the world's population and a model organism for plants of the grass family. Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) has long been engaged in rice genomic research: sequencing, assembly, information analysis and integration. Such intensive research results in public releases and biological applications. In order to facilitate obtaining and operating on the rice genomic data, as well as to provide a genomic groundwork for comparative, functional or evolutionary research on important cereal crops, BGI has established and updated the Rice Information System (BGI-RIS V2), an integrated information resource and comparative analysis workbench for rice genomes. BGI-RIS V2 offers not only genomic sequences, which combine the genomic data of Oryza sativa L. ssp. indica (by BGI) with Oryza sativa L. ssp. japonica, but also most detailed annotation data, including genetic markers, Bacterial Artificial Chromosome (BAC) end sequences, gene contents, cDNAs, oligos, tiling arrays, repetitive elements, and genomic polymorphisms. As a basic platform, BGI-RIS V2 also offers graphical interfaces and a series of tools and services for gene finding, genomic alignment and genomic assembly. This database is available through the web server (http://rise.genomics.org.cn or http://rice.genomics.org.cn) and the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server (ftp://ftp.genomics.org.cn/pub/database/rice).
水稻既是世界上一半以上人口的主食，也是禾本科植物的模式生物。北京基因组研究所（BGI）长期从事水稻基因组研究：测序、组装、信息分析与整合。这些深入的研究产生了公开的数据发布和生物学应用。为了便于获取和处理水稻基因组数据，并为重要谷类作物的比较、功能或进化研究提供基因组基础，BGI建立并更新了水稻信息系统（BGI-RIS V2），这是一个用于水稻基因组的综合信息资源和比较分析平台。BGI-RIS V2不仅提供基因组序列，它整合了由BGI测定的水稻籼稻亚种基因组数据和粳稻亚种基因组数据，还提供了最详细的注释数据，包括遗传标记、细菌人工染色体（BAC）末端序列、基因内容、cDNA、寡核苷酸、平铺阵列、重复元件和基因组多态性。作为一个基础平台，BGI-RIS V2还提供图形界面以及一系列用于基因查找、基因组比对和基因组组装的工具与服务。该数据库可通过网络服务器（http://rise.genomics.org.cn或http://rice.genomics.org.cn）以及文件传输协议（FTP）服务器（ftp://ftp.genomics.org.cn/pub/database/rice）获取。
