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Title: INTERNET ACCESS TO MAIZE GENOME INFORMATION: MAIZEDB

Author
item POLACCO, MARY
item BERLYN MARY - YALE UNIVERSITY
item Byrne, Patrick
item Davis, Georgia
item HANCOCK DENIS - UNIV OF MO
item LETOVSKY STAN - JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
item COE EDWARD H - 3622-20-00

Submitted to: Maize Genetics Conference Abstracts
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 3/16/1995
Publication Date: N/A
Citation: N/A

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: Our goal is to tie the biology of maize to its genome, using the genetic map as the unifying framework. Access to current data, updated daily, is supported (both World Wide Web (WWW) gateway to SYBASE and SYBASE) for persons with any connection to the internet, including modem (telnet teosinte.agron.missouri.edu; login (username): guest; password: corncob. Gene functionality may be queried by mutant phenotype, trait, confirmed or putative gene products, metabolic pathways, induction conditions and text descriptions of genes, many provided by researchers. Full text searching of the database is supported and there is thesaurus capability (SYBASE only) for all fields with controlled vocabularies. Most accesses are by WWW (URL: http://www.agron.missouri.edu), currently over 11,000/month; or by GOPHER (gopher.agron.missouri.edu, port 70), numbering over 5000/month. An ACeDB format is available for Unix. MaizeDB is a relational, Sybase database, curated at the University of Missouri-Columbia as part of the Plant Genome Research Program of the National Agricultural Library in Beltsville, Maryland. The Curator, appointed Jan 1995, is Mary Polacco. The Genera software, that supports both the database and the WWW Sybase gateway, was supported by NSF grants to S. Letovsky and M. Berlyn and is available without cost from S. Letovsky.