Nucleic Acids Research Advance Access originally published online on December 17, 2007
Nucleic Acids Research 2008 36(Database issue):D1028-D1033; doi:10.1093/nar/gkm978
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Nucleic Acids Research, 2008, Vol. 36, Database issue D1028-D1033
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The Rice Annotation Project Database (RAP-DB): 2008 update*
Received September 14, 2007. Revised October 17, 2007. Accepted October 18, 2007.
The Rice Annotation Project Database (RAP-DB) was created to provide the genome sequence assembly of the International Rice Genome Sequencing Project (IRGSP), manually curated annotation of the sequence, and other genomics information that could be useful for comprehensive understanding of the rice biology. Since the last publication of the RAP-DB, the IRGSP genome has been revised and reassembled. In addition, a large number of rice-expressed sequence tags have been released, and functional genomics resources have been produced worldwide. Thus, we have thoroughly updated our genome annotation by manual curation of all the functional descriptions of rice genes. The latest version of the RAP-DB contains a variety of annotation data as follows: clone positions, structures and functions of 31 439 genes validated by cDNAs, RNA genes detected by massively parallel signature sequencing (MPSS) technology and sequence similarity, flanking sequences of mutant lines, transposable elements, etc. Other annotation data such as Gnomon can be displayed along with those of RAP for comparison. We have also developed a new keyword search system to allow the user to access useful information. The RAP-DB is available at: http://rapdb.dna.affrc.go.jp/ and http://rapdb.lab.nig.ac.jp/.
*A complete list of authors appears at the end of this article.