What is Phytozome?
Phytozome is a joint project of the Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute and the Center for Integrative Genomics to enable comparative genomic study of green plants. [more]- Phytozome version 4.0 is now available
- Maize (Zea mays) BAC browser and BLAST interface are now available
News
- 13 May 2009:Phytozome v4.0 released.
Version 4.0 of Phytozome is now available, featuring 14 complete green plant genomes clustered into gene families at 20 evolutionarily significant nodes.
[more] - 13 Mar 2009:Zea mays (maize) available.
The Zea mays (maize) browser and BLAST interface are now available.
[more] - 8 Dec 2008:Gbrowse upgraded
All Phytozome Gbrowse browsers have been updated to v1.69 from v1.64.
[more] - 8 Dec 2008:Chromosome-based soybean assembly and annotation is now available
Glyma1.0 chromosome-based assembly and annotation of soybean is now available, replacing the preliminary contig-based assembly and annotation previously available at Phytozome.
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Explore a genome:
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Find a gene family:Phytozome: a tool for green plant comparative genomics
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