About GrainGenes

GrainGenes, a database for Triticeae and Avena, is a comprehensive resource for molecular and phenotypic information for wheat, barley, rye, and other related species, including oat.

GrainGenes is a digital platform that serves small grains research communities as their central data repository 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 and interactivity. (An obsolete page about GrainGenes can be found here).

GrainGenes Liaison Committee provides oversight to GrainGenes.

GrainGenes's snail address is: USDA ARS WRRC, 800 Buchanan Street, Albany, CA 94710-1105.

Link for "How to cite GrainGenes."

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CURRENT GRAINGENES TEAM MEMBERS

Taner Sen (Lead Scientist, Research Computational Biologist) Google Scholar
510.559.5982
taner.sen@usda.gov

Gerard R. Lazo (Curator, System Administrator, Geneticist)
510.559.5640
gerard.lazo@usda.gov

Victoria Blake (Curator)
victoria.blake@montana.edu

Steve Michel (System Administrator, Programmer)
510.559.6194
steve.michel@usda.gov

Elly Poretsky (Postdoc) Google Scholar
510.559.6146

Parva Sharma (Postdoc) Google Scholar
240.886.8872
pksharma@umd.edu

Eric Yao (Bioinformatics Programmer)
ericiam@berkeley.edu


FORMER GRAINGENES TEAM MEMBERS (WIP)

Busra Cagirici (now Postdoc at Stanford) Google Scholar

Laurel Cooper (now Research Associate at Oregon State University) Google Scholar

Sarah Odell (now PhD student at UC Davis) Google Scholar

Margaret Woodhouse (now Computational Biologist at MaizeGDB at USDA-ARS) Google Scholar

Dave Matthews (now Retired)