Important Announcement: Version 2 of the oat OT3098 reference assembly is currently underway. This new version will include gap filling as well as reorientation/flipping of some chromosomes. A novel orientation scheme was agreed upon by the oat community after v1 of OT3098 was made available. The chromosome names and structure are correct, but the positions will change for a subset of the chromosomes because the entire chromosome will be inverted/flipped. Following this chromosome orientation will allow current and future A.
The International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC) is pleased to announce that announce that version 2 of the reference sequence of bread wheat, IWGSC RefSeq v2.0, is now available at the IWGSC data repository hosted by URGI-INRA.
In a show of close collaboration between two USDA-ARS databases, GrainGenes and the Triticeae Toolbox (T3) decided to maintain shared genome browsers for bread wheat and barley reference genomes (released in July 2019). The Chinese Spring wheat and Morex barley genome browsers will be housed at GrainGenes and will be populated by both teams.
GrainGenes is a digital platform that serves small grains research communities as a centralized repository for peer-reviewed and curated data, and as a facilitator for community activities. It has been hard-funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service to ensure long-term data sustainability through a functional and integrated web interface for wheat, barley, oat, and rye. Please let us know how GrainGenes can improve its interface, tools, and services by using the Feedback button. Please cite us: Blake et al, Database, 2019.