Plant Physiology 138:1310-1317 (2005)
© 2005 American Society of Plant Biologists
Bioinformatics
The SOL Genomics Network. A Comparative Resource for Solanaceae Biology and Beyond1
Lukas A. Mueller*,
Teri H. Solow,
Nicolas Taylor,
Beth Skwarecki,
Robert Buels,
John Binns,
Chenwei Lin,
Mark H. Wright,
Robert Ahrens,
Ying Wang,
Evan V. Herbst,
Emil R. Keyder,
Naama Menda,
Dani Zamir and
Steven D. Tanksley
Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 (L.A.M., T.H.S., N.T., B.S., R.B., J.B., C.L., M.H.W., R.A., Y.W., E.V.H., E.R.K., S.D.T.); and Department of Field Crops, Vegetables, and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
The SOL Genomics Network (SGN; http://sgn.cornell.edu) is a rapidly evolving comparative resource for the plants of the Solanaceae family, which includes important crop and model plants such as potato (Solanum tuberosum), eggplant (Solanum melongena), pepper (Capsicum annuum), and tomato (Solanum lycopersicum). The aim of SGN is to relate these species to one another using a comparative genomics approach and to tie them to the other dicots through the fully sequenced genome of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). SGN currently houses map and marker data for Solanaceae species, a large expressed sequence tag collection with computationally derived unigene sets, an extensive database of phenotypic information for a mutagenized tomato population, and associated tools such as real-time quantitative trait loci. Recently, the International Solanaceae Project (SOL) was formed as an umbrella organization for Solanaceae research in over 30 countries to address important questions in plant biology. The first cornerstone of the SOL project is the sequencing of the entire euchromatic portion of the tomato genome. SGN is collaborating with other bioinformatics centers in building the bioinformatics infrastructure for the tomato sequencing project and implementing the bioinformatics strategy of the larger SOL project. The overarching goal of SGN is to make information available in an intuitive comparative format, thereby facilitating a systems approach to investigations into the basis of adaptation and phenotypic diversity in the Solanaceae family, other species in the Asterid clade such as coffee (Coffea arabica), Rubiaciae, and beyond.
1 This work was supported by the National Science Foundation (grant nos. 0116076, 9872617, 975866, and 0421634) for the SGN and the tomato sequencing project.
www.plantphysiol.org/cgi/doi/10.1104/pp.105.060707.
* Corresponding author; e-mail lam87{at}cornell.edu; fax 6072556683.
Received February 3, 2005;
returned for revision April 18, 2005;
accepted May 3, 2005.
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