Gramene Database build 27 released

Dear Gramene users,

We are happy to announce the release of our 27th build of the Gramene
database and website [[Only registered users see links. ]. Some of the highlights for this
release include:

- Four new species added to the genome browser:
-- Oryza glaberrima short arm
-- Sorghum bicolor (Sorghum)
-- Vitis vinifera (grape)
-- Populus trichocarpain (poplar)

- The markers database contains a total of 30M markers including up-to-
date nucleotide sequences of all Viridiplantae contained in the NCBI
Genbank Core Nucleotide, dbEST, and dbGSS division.

- Introduced Gazetteer (GAZ) ontology to describe places, place names
and the relations between them to annotate the source site of
germplasm collection

- New SorghumCyc 1.0 metabolic pathways beta release

- New RiceCyc 2.0 metabolic pathways release

- New sorghum genetic diversity database

For the complete release notes, please see here:

[Only registered users see links. ]

This is our first release since moving to our 6-month cycle, so you
can expect to see build 28 in the fall. Thank you for your continued
use and support of Gramene, and please let us know of any problems,
concerns or suggestions you have:

[Only registered users see links. ]

The Gramene team
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