Poster #RP126
The Rice Annotation Project Database (RAP-DB): Hub for Oryza sativa ssp. japonica genome information
Hajime Ohyanagi*, Tsuyoshi Tanaka**, Hiroaki Sakai**, Yasumasa Shigemoto***, Kaori Yamaguchi****, Takuya Habara*****, Yasuyuki Fujii*****, Baltazar A. Antonio**, Yoshiaki Nagamura**, Tadashi Imanishi******, Kazuho Ikeo*******, Takeshi Itoh********, Takashi Gojobori*********, Takuji Sasaki**
*Center for Information Biology and DNA Data Bank of Japan, National Institute of Genetics, Research Organization of Information and Systems, 1111 Yata, Mishima, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan / Tsukuba Division, Mitsubishi Space Software Co., Ltd., 1-6-1 Takezo; **Genome Research Department, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, 2-1-2 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8602, Japan; ***Center for Information Biology and DNA Data Bank of Japan, National Institute of Genetics, Research Organization of Information and Systems, 1111 Yata, Mishima, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan / Life Science Systems Division, Fujitsu Limited, 1-17-25 Shinkamata,; ****Japan Biological Information Research Center, Japan Biological Informatics Consortium, 2-42 Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0064, Japan; *****Japan Biological Information Research Center, Japan Biological Informatics Consortium, 2-42 Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0064, Japan / Biological Information Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 2-42 Aomi, Koto-ku; ******Biological Information Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 2-42 Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0064, Japan; *******Center for Information Biology and DNA Data Bank of Japan, National Institute of Genetics, Research Organization of Information and Systems, 1111 Yata, Mishima, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan; ********Genome Research Department, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, 2-1-2 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8602, Japan / Biological Information Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 2-42 Aomi, Koto-ku, To; *********Center for Information Biology and DNA Data Bank of Japan, National Institute of Genetics, Research Organization of Information and Systems, 1111 Yata, Mishima, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan / Biological Information Research Center, National Institute of Advan
With the completion of the rice genome sequencing, a standardized annotation is necessary so that the information from the genome sequence can be fully utilized in understanding the biology of rice and other cereal crops. The Rice Annotation Project (RAP) was organized in 2004 with the aim of providing standardized and highly accurate annotations of the rice genome, and annotation jamborees have been held annually by the RAP with the aim of annotating and manually curating all the genes in the rice genome. To facilitate efficient management of the results of annotation and to establish a platform for integrating the data with other rice resources, an annotation database called the Rice Annotation Project Database (RAP-DB) was developed. The RAP-DB integrates the genome sequence and the RAP annotations with other data on rice researches, and makes them available to the public through HTTP access. The RAP-DB has two different types of annotation viewers, sequence similarity and keyword search, and other useful features. By connecting the annotations to other rice genomics data, such as full-length cDNAs and Tos17 mutant lines, the RAP-DB serves as a hub for rice genomics. All of the resources can be accessed through http://rapdb.lab.nig.ac.jp/.