Abstract

Ensembl Plants is a genome centric platform for visualisation and analysis of plant genomics data. It hosts assembly, sequence, expression, variation and comparative datasets for a growing number of plant species (currently 38) covering a range of economically important crops, including sorghum, brassica, tomato, barley, potato, rice, wheat and maize, and taxonomically diverse model organisms such as arabidopsis, amborella, chlamydomonas, and physcomitrella. The web-based genome browser visually integrates sequence and assembly information with genes, markers, probes, variations, repeats and other public or user-supplied datasets. It includes a web-based data mining tool, allowing specific sets of data to be queried and downloaded for offline analysis. In addition to the browser, all data can be accessed computationally via extensive Perl and REST AP Is and is available for FTP download or direct database access. In addition to the public datasets provided within the browser, users can upload or ‘attach’ various types of private data, allowing your own annotation to be browsed in the context of the reference sequence and annotation.