The iPlant Collaborative (iPlant) is a United States National Science Foundation (NSF)
funded project that aims to create an innovative, comprehensive, and foundational …

Gramene ( http://www.gramene.org ) is a comparative genome mapping database for
grasses and a community resource for rice (Oryza sativa). It combines a semi-automatically …

Zebrafish have become a popular organism for the study of vertebrate gene function 1 , 2 .
The virtually transparent embryos of this species, and the ability to accelerate genetic studies …

We report an improved draft nucleotide sequence of the 2.3-gigabase genome of maize, an
important crop plant and model for biological research. Over 32,000 genes were predicted, …

Sorghum, an African grass related to sugar cane and maize, is grown for food, feed, fibre
and fuel. We present an initial analysis of the ∼730-megabase Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench …

Background This study reviews the efficacy of vacuum-assisted wound closure (VAWC) to
obtain primary fascial closure of open abdomens after severe trauma. Methods The study …

A total of 2414 new di-, tri- and tetra-nucleotide non-redundant SSR primer pairs, representing
2240 unique marker loci, have been developed and experimentally validated for rice (…

Flowering time is a complex trait that controls adaptation of plants to their local environment
in the outcrossing species Zea mays (maize). We dissected variation for flowering time with a …

Maize genetic diversity has been used to understand the molecular basis of phenotypic
variation and to improve agricultural efficiency and sustainability. We crossed 25 diverse inbred …

Although similar integrative tools exist (Supplementary Note 2), no other open platform
shares all KBase’s features, which include the following:(i) comprehensive support for data …