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Mary L. Schaeffer
Researcher at University of Missouri
Publications - 35
Citations - 3272
Mary L. Schaeffer is an academic researcher from University of Missouri. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ontology (information science) & Genome. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 35 publications receiving 2991 citations. Previous affiliations of Mary L. Schaeffer include Agricultural Research Service & United States Department of Agriculture.
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Big data: The future of biocuration.
Doug Howe,Maria C. Costanzo,Petra Fey,Takashi Gojobori,Linda Hannick,Winston Hide,Winston Hide,David P. Hill,Renate Kania,Mary L. Schaeffer,Mary L. Schaeffer,Susan E. St. Pierre,Simon N. Twigger,Owen White,Seung Y. Rhee +14 more
TL;DR: To thrive, the field that links biologists and their data urgently needs structure, recognition and support.
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Physical and genetic structure of the maize genome reflects its complex evolutionary history.
Fusheng Wei,Edward H. Coe,Edward H. Coe,William Nelson,Arvind K. Bharti,Fred Engler,Ed Butler,Hyeran Kim,Jose Luis Goicoechea,Mingsheng Chen,Seunghee Lee,Galina Fuks,Hector Sanchez-Villeda,Steven A Schroeder,Zhiwei Fang,Michael S. McMullen,Michael S. McMullen,Georgia Davis,John E. Bowers,Andrew H. Paterson,Mary L. Schaeffer,Mary L. Schaeffer,Jack M. Gardiner,Karen C. Cone,Joachim Messing,Carol Soderlund,Rod A. Wing +26 more
TL;DR: Reconstructing the paleoethnobotany of the maize genome indicates that the progenitors of modern maize contained ten chromosomes, and a sequence-ready fingerprinted contig-based physical map is constructed to better understand maize genome organization and to build a framework for genome sequencing.
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MaizeGDB 2018: the maize multi-genome genetics and genomics database
John L. Portwood,Margaret R. Woodhouse,Ethalinda K. S. Cannon,Jack M. Gardiner,Lisa C. Harper,Mary L. Schaeffer,Jesse R. Walsh,Taner Z. Sen,Taner Z. Sen,Kyoung Tak Cho,David A. Schott,Bremen L. Braun,Miranda Dietze,Brittney Dunfee,Christine G. Elsik,Nancy Manchanda,Edward H. Coe,Martin M. Sachs,Philip S. Stinard,Josh Tolbert,Shane Zimmerman,Carson M. Andorf +21 more
TL;DR: The changes MaizeGDB has made within the last three years are reported to keep pace with recent software and research advances, as well as the pan-genomic landscape that cheaper and better sequencing technologies have made possible.
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MaizeGDB update: new tools, data and interface for the maize model organism database
Carson M. Andorf,Ethalinda K. S. Cannon,John L. Portwood,Jack M. Gardiner,Jack M. Gardiner,Lisa C. Harper,Mary L. Schaeffer,Bremen L. Braun,Darwin A. Campbell,Abhinav G. Vinnakota,Venktanaga V. Sribalusu,Miranda Huerta,Kyoung Tak Cho,Kokulapalan Wimalanathan,Jacqueline D. Richter,Emily D. Mauch,Bhavani Satyanarayana Rao,Scott M. Birkett,Taner Z. Sen,Carolyn J. Lawrence-Dill +19 more
TL;DR: A multi-year effort to update the MaizeGDB resource by reorganizing existing data, upgrading hardware and infrastructure, creating new tools, incorporating new data types (including diversity data, expression data, gene models, and metabolic pathways), and developing and deploying a modern interface.
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The Plant Ontology as a Tool for Comparative Plant Anatomy and Genomic Analyses
Laurel Cooper,Ramona Walls,Justin Elser,Maria A. Gandolfo,Dennis W. Stevenson,Barry Smith,Justin Preece,Balaji Athreya,Christopher J. Mungall,Stefan A. Rensing,Manuel Hiss,Daniel Lang,Ralf Reski,Tanya Z. Berardini,Donghui Li,Eva Huala,Mary L. Schaeffer,Mary L. Schaeffer,Naama Menda,Elizabeth Arnaud,Rosemary Shrestha,Yukiko Yamazaki,Pankaj Jaiswal +22 more
TL;DR: This paper focuses on the plant anatomical entity branch of the Plant Ontology, describing the organizing principles, resources available to users and examples of how the PO is integrated into other plant genomics databases and web portals.