2007 Annual Report 1a.Objectives (from AD-416) The objective of this project is to extend existing resources and develop new resources for comparative genomics for the purpose of understanding cereal genomes and genes from plants of agronomic and economic importance. 1b.Approach (from AD-416) Approach: . 1)Review the current state of bioinformatic and biological resources for comparative plant genomics. (2) Project future needs with respect to high-throughput genomic resources that will become available to the plant community and analysis tools to support the analysis of chromosome evolution in cereal genomes. (3) Review the current bioinformatic and biological resources available at the Plant Soil and Nutrition Laboratory and to identify where resources will be needed to meet the needs of the expanding plant genomic community. (4) Use or adapt existing bioinformatic tools where available and develop new resources where no current resource have been identified. 3.Progress Report This report serves to document research conducted under a Specific Cooperative Agreement between ARS and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; ARS project 1907-21000-023-01S entitled "Resource Development of Comparative Cereal Genomics." In the past year funds have focused on improving cyberinfrastructure for genomics and were used to support GMOD (Generic Model Organism Database) project, specifically development of BioMart project, which simplifies the task of creation and maintenance of advanced query interfaces backed by a relational database and it is particularly suited for providing the 'data mining' like searches of complex descriptive (e.g. biological) data and meetings to support software development and communication between open source developer and the Gramene project. Management and Communication: Discussion and review of the objectives are done at least twice a year in conference calls or in personal meetings as well as email exchanges and conference calls.