Gramene Copyright Statement

Copyrights: The information and software used in the development and building of the Gramene database and web site is available from various sources within the public domain. Permission for reproduction has been given or implied by the researchers/institutes who contributed or published the original materials. However, there may be patents, copyrights or intellectual property rights associated with the original data, and users of the Gramene database contents are solely responsible for compliance with original restrictions and acknowledgement requirements when using original data.

Citing Gramene Data: The purpose of collaboration with and contributions to Gramene is to make a comprehensive cereal genomic and comparative resource available to the scientific community. As such, the Gramene database is freely available for download and use as long as Gramene is cited as the source. This includes the tools available at Gramene including but not limited to RiceCyc, CMap Viewer, Gramene Mart and the Genome Browser. When using Gramene or the information derived from Gramene kindly acknowledge the Gramene project by citing the web address http://www.gramene.org/ and identifying the version of Gramene being used (identified on the Home page) and the date accessed.

Apart from our in-house and/or community wide quality measures that we have in place, we request that users who notice inaccurate or missing data to please inform us so that it can be corrected in a future version.

For information on linking directly to particular data items, see this document.

Citing Gramene: When citing the Gramene project for other purposes, please refer to any one of the following papers:

Jaiswal P, Ni J, Yap I, Ware D, Spooner W, Youens-Clark K, Ren L, Liang C, Zhao W, Ratnapu K, Faga B, Canaran P, Fogleman M, Hebbard C, Avraham S, Schmidt S, Casstevens TM, Buckler ES, Stein L, McCouch S (2006)Gramene: a bird's eye view of cereal genomes. Nucleic Acids Research, 34: D717-723. [ see Abstract ]

Ware D, Jaiswal P, Ni J, Pan X, Chang K, Clark K, Teytelman L, Schmidt S, Zhao W, Cartinhour S, McCouch S, Stein L (2002) Gramene: a resource for comparative grass genomics. Nucleic Acids Research, 30, 103-105.(Gramene Reference ID 6446)

Ware DH, Jaiswal P, Ni J, Yap IV, Pan X, Clark KY, Teytelman L, Schmidt SC, Zhao W, Chang K, Cartinhour S, Stein LD, McCouch SR (2002) Gramene, a tool for grass genomics. Plant Physiol 130: 1606-1613.

For Ontologies at Gramene:

Jaiswal P, Ware D, Ni J, Chang K, Zhao W, Schmidt S, Pan X, Clark K, Teytelman L, Cartinhour S, Stein L, McCouch S (2002) Gramene: development and integration of trait and gene ontologies for rice. Comparative and Functional Genomics 3: 132-136

Yamazaki Y, Jaiswal P (2005) Biological ontologies in rice databases. An introduction to the activities in Gramene and Oryzabase. Plant Cell Physiol 46: 63-68. Epub 2005 Jan 2019.