Updated Rice Kinase Database RKD 2.0: enabling transcriptome and functional analysis of rice kinase genes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Protein kinases catalyze the transfer of a phosphate moiety from a phosphate donor to the substrate molecule, thus playing critical roles in cell signaling and metabolism. Although plant genomes contain more than 1000 genes that encode kinases, knowledge is limited about the function of each of these kinases. A major obstacle that hinders progress towards kinase characterization is functional redundancy. To address this challenge, we previously developed the rice kinase database (RKD) that integrated omics-scale data within a phylogenetics context.

Results

An updated version of rice kinase database (RKD) that contains metadata derived from NCBI GEO expression datasets has been developed. RKD 2.0 facilitates in-depth transcriptomic analyses of kinase-encoding genes

SUBMITTER: Chandran AKN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4991984 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature