Presented is WheatExp, an expression database and visualization tool to analyze and compare homoeologue-specific transcript profiles across a broad range of tissues from different developmental stages in polyploid wheat. Beginning with publicly-available RNA-seq datasets, a pipeline was developed to distinguish between homoeologous transcripts from each annotated gene in the hexaploid bread wheat genome. We have processed and compiled data from multiple studies into a database which can be queried either by BLAST or by searching for a known gene of interest by name or functional domain.

The BBSRC funded WISP partners are pleased to announce that the 820K wheat Axiom array data set, consisting of over 380 million data points, is now available for download from the Cerealsdb web site.

The genotype dataset consist of data derived from screening a range of hexaploid lines mapping populations, nullisomic lines, Kansas deletion lines, progenitors and ancestral species against the 820K SNP array.

Mapping is in progress for the three populations included in the data set, and will be published in due course.