Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China.
BMC Plant Biol. 2011 Oct 13;11:136. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-11-136.
Brassica species include both vegetable and oilseed crops, which are very important to the daily life of common human beings. Meanwhile, the Brassica species represent an excellent system for studying numerous aspects of plant biology, specifically for the analysis of genome evolution following polyploidy, so it is also very important for scientific research. Now, the genome of Brassica rapa has already been assembled, it is the time to do deep mining of the genome data.
BRAD, the Brassica database, is a web-based resource focusing on genome scale genetic and genomic data for important Brassica crops. BRAD was built based on the first whole genome sequence and on further data analysis of the Brassica A genome species, Brassica rapa (Chiifu-401-42). It provides datasets, such as the complete genome sequence of B. rapa, which was de novo assembled from Illumina GA II short reads and from BAC clone sequences, predicted genes and associated annotations, non coding RNAs, transposable elements (TE), B. rapa genes' orthologous to those in A. thaliana, as well as genetic markers and linkage maps. BRAD offers useful searching and data mining tools, including search across annotation datasets, search for syntenic or non-syntenic orthologs, and to search the flanking regions of a certain target, as well as the tools of BLAST and Gbrowse. BRAD allows users to enter almost any kind of information, such as a B. rapa or A. thaliana gene ID, physical position or genetic marker.
BRAD, a new database which focuses on the genetics and genomics of the Brassica plants has been developed, it aims at helping scientists and breeders to fully and efficiently use the information of genome data of Brassica plants. BRAD will be continuously updated and can be accessed through http://brassicadb.org.
芸薹属植物包括蔬菜和油料作物，对人类日常生活非常重要。同时，芸薹属植物也是研究植物生物学多个方面的优秀系统，特别是在分析多倍体后基因组进化方面，因此对科学研究也非常重要。现在，芸薹属植物的基因组已经组装完成，现在是对基因组数据进行深入挖掘的时候了。
BRAD 是一个基于网络的资源，专注于重要芸薹属作物的基因组规模的遗传和基因组数据。BRAD 是基于第一个全基因组序列和对芸薹属 A 基因组物种 Brassica rapa（Chiifu-401-42）的进一步数据分析构建的。它提供了数据集，例如从头组装的 B. rapa 全基因组序列，该序列来自 Illumina GA II 短读序列和 BAC 克隆序列、预测基因和相关注释、非编码 RNA、转座元件（TE）、B. rapa 基因与拟南芥的同源基因，以及遗传标记和连锁图谱。BRAD 提供了有用的搜索和数据挖掘工具，包括在注释数据集之间搜索、搜索同线性或非同线性同源基因，以及搜索特定目标的侧翼区域，以及 BLAST 和 Gbrowse 工具。BRAD 允许用户输入几乎任何类型的信息，例如 B. rapa 或 A. thaliana 基因 ID、物理位置或遗传标记。
开发了一个专注于芸薹属植物遗传学和基因组学的新数据库 BRAD，旨在帮助科学家和育种者充分有效地利用芸薹属植物基因组数据的信息。BRAD 将不断更新，可以通过 http://brassicadb.org 访问。
