James Thomason

TL;DR: The RAST tool kit (RASTtk), a modular version of RAST that enables researchers to build custom annotation pipelines and offers a choice of software for identifying and annotating genomic features as well as the ability to add custom features to an annotation job.

TL;DR: Author(s): Arkin, Adam P; Cottingham, Robert W; Henry, Christopher S; Harris, Nomi L; Stevens, Rick L; Maslov, Sergei; Dehal, Paramvir; Ware, Doreen; Perez, Fernando; Canon, Shane; Sneddon, Michael W; Henderson, Matthew L; Riehl, William J; Murphy-Olson, Dan; Chan, Stephen Y; Kamimura, Roy T.

TL;DR: Gramene has significantly improved the web interface in order to provide a more user-friendly browsing experience, including a dropdown navigation menu system, unified web page for markers, genes, QTLs and proteins, and enhanced quick search functions.

TL;DR: The Gramene database has grown from its primary focus on rice, the first fully-sequenced grass genome, to become a resource for major model and crop plants including Arabidopsis, Brachypodium, maize, sorghum, poplar and grape in addition to several species of rice.

TL;DR: The project provides a unique community platform to support scientific research in plant genomics including studies in evolution, genetics, plant breeding, molecular biology, biochemistry and systems biology.