Wilkerson, M.D., Ru, Y., and Brendel, V.P. (2009) Common introns within orthologous genes: software and application to plants Briefings in Bioinformatics, 10(6), 631-644. [abstract] [PDF]
PlantGDB News:Community-annotated maize gene models (see an example at ZmGDB) are now displayed at both MaizeGDB and maizesequence.org, by means of Distributed Annotation Service (DAS) (November 21, 2009).
Brachypodium distachyon browser: BdGDB, a genome browser for the model grass species Brachypodium distachyon, is now available, based on the JGI v1.0 8x genome assembly. The assembly displayed comprises 271.15 Mb arranged in 5 pseudochromosomes. Display includes gene models, splice-aligned EST, cDNA, PUT assembly and Arabidopsis and rice predicted proteins (October 30, 2009).
 | Mike Brekke. Mike provides computer systems and general support for the group. Home town: Gladbrook, IA. B.S. MIS Buena Vista Univ. Storm Lake, IA, 1988. @ ISU since 1998, Brendel Group since 1998. Mike's research interests include open source software. |
 | Jon Duvick. Jon is the PlantGDB manager. Home town: Johnston, IA. B.A. Earlham College, Richmond, IN, 1976. Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1982. @ISU since 2006. Most recent publication: Duvick, J., Fu, A., Muppirala, U., Sabharval, M., Wilkerson, M.D., Lawrence, C.J., Lushbough, C. & Brendel, V. (2007) PlantGDB: a resource for comparative plant genomics. Nucleic Acids Research, 2007, doi: 10.1093/nar/gkm1041. |
 | Ann Fu. Ann Fu is a programmer/analyst at PlantGDB. Home town: Beijing, China. BS of Computer Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology 1982; MA of Computational Linguistics, Rice University 1991. @ ISU since 2004. Ann worked as a software engineer for several companies in industry including Fluid Dynamics Inc at Chicago, Neopath Inc. at Seattle, and BMC software in Houston before joining the Brendel's Group. |
 | Dan Rasmussen Dan is a programmer/analyst at PlantGDB. Home town: Cedar Rapids, IA. BS Iowa State University, 2005; Prior to joining the Brendel Group in February, 2009, Dan operated a curbside recycling business in Ames. |
 | Wei Huang. Wei Huang is our laboratory manager. Home town: HangZhou, China. BS of Medicine, Zhejiang University 1992; MS of Biological Science, School of Public Health, University of Texas at Houston 1996; MS of Statistics, Iowa state University 2002. @ ISU since 1998, Brendel Group since 2002. Wei's research interests include microarray data analysis and evolutionary pattern of duplicated genes and gene families. |