Gramene Outreach

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A database is helpful only when users are able to retrieve information of interest to them. We know that sometimes the amount of information available in genomic databases may seem overwhelming, but Gramene Outreach has the goal of making the database and website resources easily accessible to everyone. There are many resources for this attaining this goal. Below are some of the resources available to users.

• Using Gramene
• How to use Gramene
• Tutorials, help documents, FAQ's, release notes, exercises
• Past and upcoming workshops, presentations, posters, etc
• With links to conference websites and Gramene abstracts.
• Workshop Materials
• Mail Archives
Three mailing lists:
• The Gramene list is for General discussion, questions and answers.
• Subscribe to the Gramene-announce list to receive announcements of updates to the Gramene site.
• The Gramene-extdev list is for those mirroring Gramene or using its software.
• Glossary
• Feedback
• Send a message to the Gramene development team.
• Ask a question or request assistance.
• Report a problem
• Contribute to future releases by reporting your favorite features or searches
• Education
• High School Outreach
• Gramene Press Releases
• Species Pages
• Educational information with a general introduction for each grass species, important facts, anatomy, taxonomy, regional maps, agricultural statistics, nutritional and educational links, species-specific information from Gramene, recipes, species news, and germplasm resources.
• Resource Pages
• Weblinks to rice genome sequencing efforts, complete sequences, functional genomics, cereal crop databases, germplasm resources, taxonomy, bibliographies, educational pages, pathology, agriculture, tools for nucleotide and protein sequence analyses, tools for plant genome analysis, bioinformatics, plant breeding, cereal newsletters, recipes, and other (non-cereal) genome projects.
Feedback buttons are provided at the top of every page so you can get timely answers to your questions and assistance in using the databases. Please don't hesitate to ask questions. User input is essential for developing a tool that can be useful to you. *Using the "Feedback" button will submit your comments to only the Gramene team. **Using the Mailing lists will submit your comments to a public listserve.