Rice Resources

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• Rice Genome Program (RGP), Japan
• US Rice Genome Site
• Plant Genome Initiative at Rutgers (PGIR)
• Clemson University Genomics Institute (CUGI)
• Wisconsin Rice Genome Project
• Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
• TIGR Rice Genome Project
• TIGR Rice Gene Index
• The Korea Rice Genome Research Program, Korea
• National Center for Gene Research Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
• National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Thailand
• Rice Genome Project in Republic of China, Taiwan
• Genoscope, France
• IRD Rice Genetics Group, France
• Monsanto Rice Genome Project
• Oryzabase, Japan
• International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
• TIGR Rice Repeat Database
• University of Minnesota Rice cDNA Sequence Analysis Project
• Korea Rice Genome Research Program
• International Rice Genome Sequencing Project
• John Innes Centre

Complete listing of Rice (Oryza sp.) sequences

• Nucleotide sequences GenBank and EMBL
• Protein Sequences GenBank and SPTrembl (including Trembl-new)

Press releases on Rice sequencing efforts:

• Monsanto company’s first “working draft” of rice genome
• Syngenta rice genome map press release

Functional Genomics

• International Rice research Institute
• Rice IR64 mutant database, IRRI
• The Rice Functional Genomics Program (RIFGP), China
• Rice Microarray Openning Site, Japan
• Maize-Rice Functional Genomics Project (CIMMYT and IRRI)
• CAMBIA's TransGenomics Initiative (TGI)
• Rice insertion mutant database, Japan
• Cornell Theory Center Institute for Computational Genomics
• Cornell Genomics Initiative
• Resources for Genomics, Molecular Biology and Evolutionary Research
• Genetics and Genomics Links

• Oryzabase (genetic resource stock information, gene dictionary, chromosome maps, mutant images, and fundamental knowledge of rice science)
• International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
• UK cropnet
• Maize database (MaizeDB)
• Maize genome database (ZmDB)
• North American Barley Genome Project
• Plant Arrays: A Virtual Library, INRA
• Sorghum Genomics Project
• TIGR Gene Indices
• Grass Genera of the World
• New World Grasses Catalogue, Smithsonian Institution
• American Association of Cereal Chemists
• RGP High-Density Rice Genetic Map

• GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network)
• ICIS (International Crop Information System on genetic resources, crop improvement, crop management)
• SINGER (Network for Genetic Resources)
• California Cooperative Rice Research Foundation
• USDA-ARS Rice Genetics Project at UC Davis
• Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center (DBNRRC)

• Rice
• wheat
• maize
• oat
• barley
• sorghum
• sugarcane
• other monocots

• Literature searches on rice at IRRI library
• Citations for rice in PubMed
• Citations for rice in Agricola

• Morphology and growth of the rice plant
• Pests, diseases, and weeds of rice
• A Glossary of Rice Terminology
• Guide to trait evaluation in rice
• Riceworld - a compendium of facts and figures from the world of rice
• RiceWeb - the history of rice, where and how it is grown, recipes, etc.
• When Rice Was King
• Georgetown's Rice Museum

• Illustrated Encyclopedia of Forage Crop Diseases
• Extension Plant Pathology, Kansas State University
• Plant Pathology in the Public Interest, University of Nebraska

• United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service
• USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
• UK Crop Plant Bioinformatics Network
• Agricultural and Regional Information Service

• EMBnet links to various sequence analyses tools
• Blast for doing homology searches
• EMBL to search and retrieve the sequences, structures, references, etc.
• Prosite a Database of protein families and domains
• Interpro a Database of protein domains and functional sites
• PDB-Databank a repository of protein 3D structures
• NCBI-ENTREZ to search and retrieve the sequences, structures, references, etc.
• Stanford Genomic Resources various resources for genomics and database repositories
• SWISS-PROT and TrEMBL to search and retrieve protein sequences
• ClustalW for multiple sequence alignment
• Pedro's BioMolecular Research Tools
• Proteomic tools
• Quick Links (for searches in various databases )
• Bio-Tool Kit stand alone tools for various biological studies
• Predict Protein link for sequence analysis, and structure prediction.
• Compare Proteins (COGnitor: Compare your sequence to COG database)
• Computational Analysis Of Complete Genomic Sequences automatic and exhaustive analysis of protein sequence sets
• Two Sequence Alignment for aligning any two sequences, by not using ClustalW
• GeneDoc A Full Featured Multiple Sequence Alignment Editor, Analyzer and Shading Utility for Windows

• Bioinform - The Global Bioinformatics News Service
• Motif Bioinformatics Web Site
• Rice Bioinformatics: IRRI-hosted Rice Bioinformatics information site set up in response to the Bioinformatics Workshop at the 4th Rice Genetics Symposium held in October 2000.

• Rice Genetics Newsletter
• Rice Genome Newsletter