A bioinformatics gateway towards integrative legume biology


  • Legume Proteomes :

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    Portal dedicated to Genbank Fabaceae family, M. truncatula, G. max and L. japonicus functional annotation (blast, search engine, automatic annotation)
    Direct access using keyword:



  • Comparative Genomics : (Narcisse) Comparing genomes and maps to transfer knowledge    tutorial

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    The Comparative Genomics plant section, integrates the pairwise comparisons of genome sequences (both at the nucleic and protein levels), including the two model legumes M. truncatulav3 (http:// medicago.org/genome) and L. japonicus v1 (Sato et al., 2008) as well as the crop legume G. max v1 (http://www.phytozome.net; http://soybase.org)



  • Data : Integration of annotation software

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    The Data section provides an unified index to the annotated legume genome pseudomolecules. For M. truncatula, the annotation of the pseudomolecules can be visualised using Artemis (Carver et al., 2008) and Apollo (Misra and Harris, 2006) run as webstart applications to avoid any prerequisites on the user desktop. On the same page, users can select and download into Apollo an annotated region of a M. truncatula pseudomolecule including similarity results against several protein databases: SwissProt, TAIR, etc. as well as Medicago ESTs extracted from GenBank (Benson et al., 2009) and aligned on the genome both directly by Genomethreader (Gremme et al., 2005) and via a PASA assembly (Haas et al., 2003)



  • PrimerSearch :
    E-PCR or EmBOSS Primer search are used to identify sequence landmarks called Sequence Tagged Sites (STSs) within a nucleotide sequence. Genomes available are : M. truncatula (v3,v2,v1), L. japonicus v1 and G. max v1


  • EuGene : a Gene Finding software
    EuGene is an open gene finder for eukaryotic organisms


  • PatScan :
    PatScan is a pattern matcher which searches protein or nucleotide (DNA, RNA, tRNA etc.) sequence archives (here legume datasets) for instances of a pattern which you input.


  • Blast :     tutorial
    Launch a blast against legume datasets


See all the tutorials : Help/Tutorials