MaizeGDB
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MaizeGDB is a community-oriented, long-term informatics service to researchers focused on the crop plant and model organism Zea mays.
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Joined February 2011
RT @HochholdingerF: #OTD 15 years ago, the draft genome of the maize 🌽 inbred line B73 was published. @MaizeGDB
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In addition, we have updated the web-based tool SNPVersity to explore the hundreds of millions of variant sites, integrating it with other tools at MaizeGDB.
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Congrats to Ed Buckler (USDA-ARS) who has been chosen as the 2025 recipient of The Barbara McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies by the Maize Genetics Cooperation!
🎉Edward Buckler, plant geneticist w/ @USDA_ARS & CALS adjunct prof, has been awarded the 2025 Barbara McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics & Genome Studies from the Maize Genetics Cooperation, a global org of maize geneticists & breeders. Congratulations!
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RT @SoyBaseDatabase: After a multi-year effort, a major SoyBase upgrade is nearly ready for release. The new SoyBase site is completely rew…
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Research by Tibbs-Cortes et al. identifies environmental indices influencing 19 maize traits in the NAM population across 11 environments to enhance trait prediction and uncover loci linked to phenotypic plasticity. Explore the results on JBrowse!
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An exciting opportunity from the Genomes to Fields project.
Register by December 14, 2024 for Genomes to Fields (G2F) GxE Prediction Competition! November 15, 2024 – January 15, 2025. Winner --> $4,000 + speaking invitation/ travel/ first author on publication! Can co-author competition paper regardless of rank
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The 2025 Maize Genetics Meeting is listed as an eligible conference for the 2025 ROOT & SHOOT Travel Awards. The Maize Meeting takes place on March 6 – 9, 2025 in St. Louis, MO.
The ROOT & SHOOT Travel Award program provides funds to attend a plant science conference. These awards support student/mentor pairs, at least one of which must be a member of SACNAS, MANRRS, or AISES. Applications due by December 2, 2024.
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Call for Papers - BMC Genomic Data is inviting submissions for their "Omics of Crops" collection.🌽 Explore the latest in genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics to advance crop science.
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@qi_wei_wei @mbhufford @CortevaUS The new B104 genome and annotations were released last month under the Toronto agreement. Additional datasets should be released in the near future.
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Job announcement: USDA-ARS National Program Leader for Plant Health. This position will provide national leadership and coordination of agricultural research programs relating to diseases of agronomic and horticultural crops. Apply by August 9th.
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RT @mbhufford: My group is recruiting a bioinformatician for genomic studies in maize. The position includes work on diverse projects and c…
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Registration for the 6th European Maize Meeting is now open. The meeting will occur from September 18-20, 2024, at the University of Antwerp! Open to PhD students, Post-docs, Research Scientists, and PIs in maize research. More info:
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We're releasing MaizeMine v1.6 soon! The user database will be copied from v1.5 on June 20 and v1.6 goes live on June 25. Lists/queries saved in v1.5 after the 20th won't transfer but will be accessible. MM v1.5 stays available via a homepage link. MM v1.4 retires on July 31.
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Congrats to Rita Hayford on the publication of her work mapping RNA-Seq reads from 24 publicly available datasets (17 abiotic & 7 biotic studies) to B73v5 and annotating over 3k stress-related functional annotation of maize gene models.
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RT @GeneticsGSA: A May #GENETICS article describes the expansion of @MaizeGDB to include the genic subset of the Zea pan-genome in a pan-ge…
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