AgBase: a functional genomics resource for agriculture.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many agricultural species and their pathogens have sequenced genomes and more are in progress. Agricultural species provide food, fiber, xenotransplant tissues, biopharmaceuticals and biomedical models. Moreover, many agricultural microorganisms are human zoonoses. However, systems biology from functional genomics data is hindered in agricultural species because agricultural genome sequences have relatively poor structural and functional annotation and agricultural research communities are smaller with limited funding compared to many model organism communities.

Description

To facilitate systems biology in these traditionally agricultural species we have established "AgBase", a curated, web-accessible, public resource http://www.agbase.msstate.edu for structural a

SUBMITTER: McCarthy FM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1618847 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature