GABI Primary Database: Bioinformatics Resource for Plant Genome Data

Axel Nagel
RZPD Deutsches Ressourcenzentrum
fuer Genomforschung GmbH
Heubnerweg 6
D-14059 Berlin
Germany
telephone: (+49 30) 32639-264
fax: (+49 30) 32639-111
email: nagel@rzpd.de
prestype: Poster
presenter: Axel Nagel

Axel Nagel, Svenja Meyer & Steffen Schulze-Kremer

Gabi, acronym for "Genomanalyse im biologischen System Pflanze", is the name of a large collaborative network of different plant genomic research projects. The project is funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) with the purpose, to support plant genome research in Germany, to yield information about commercial important plant genomes, and to establish a scientific network within plant genomic research. GabiPD (Primary database) is part of the large Gabi network. It is localized at the Resource Center (RZPD), which has been established in 1995 as the central infrastructure of the German Human Genome Project.

The main objectives of the GabiPD are to collect and integrate biological primary data, like sequence data, results of microarray studies and proteome analysis (e.g. data of 2D gelelectrophoresis) as well as mapping data etc. Interfaces are developed to allow database searches and to visualize data via internet. GabiPD facilitates the interchange of data within Gabi and combines data of different experiments and groups. This way a synergistic effect is created for all Gabi participants. Particular emphasis is put on high troughput expression analysis. To store this data a MIAME-compliant database schema was developed.

The poster will give you an impression of GabiPD contents, developed interfaces and underlying database structures.