Bioinformatics Databases

Current experiments in genomics produce a large amount of data that needs to be organized into databases and broadly accessible. Like other species, the Musa genomics community will benefit from integrative ways to study its genome.

Over the past years, genetic and genomic data (e.g. BAC, EST, Markers) have been generated and stored into databases. Several pipelines of analyses were implemented for gene, transposable element, and expression data analyses, and for comparative genomics such as ortholog predictions via a phylogenomic approach (GreenPhyl). Web tools have been developed  to facilitate access to data, such as genetic makers (TropGeneDB), genetic maps (CMap), a physical Map (GBrowse), Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTtik), Gene and Transposable predictions, and to allow online manual genome annotation (GnpAnnot). At the moment, the large majortiy of the tools are hosted by the SouthGreen Bioinformatics Platform.

In the future, the number of tools and the size of data will continue to grow, in particular with the near release of the Musa genome sequence, and the use of Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies.

This section is a place where data can be shared, and where databases and tools can be listed in an homogeneous way to serve the Musa genomics community. It is intended to provide the researchers interested in Musa with a common set of resources in order to work more efficiently and effectively.

The list of tools is not exhaustive. If you want us to add your system, please contact us.