Overview
The Biofuel Feedstock Genomics Resource (BFGR) is a USDA/DOE funded project that provides annotation for gene and transcript sequences from biofuel feedstock species. For many plant species that are being used for biofuel feedstock research, there is limited genomic and transcript sequence data. Except for those species that have fully sequenced genomes, annotation of these sequence resources can be lacking, and when present, the annotation quality can vary greatly. The Biofuel Feedstock Genomics Resource provides uniform annotation for all gene and transcript sequence data that is available for biofuel feedstock species. Besides functional and sequence similarity annotations, sequences within the BFGR have been examined for SNPs and SSRs.
Sequences within the BFGR are from numerous species: Brachypodium distachyon, Cenchrus ciliaris, Helianthus annuus, Hordeum vulgare, Leymus cinereus x Leymus triticoides, Medicago sativa, Medicago truncatula, Panicum virgatum, Picea glauca, Picea sitchensis, Pinus taeda, Populus tremula x Populus tremuloides, Secale cereale, Sorghum propinquum, Triticum aestivum, Triticum turgidum subsp. durum, Triticum monococcum and Zea mays. Additionally, the genes from the five plant species that have been available genome sequence are annotated within the BFGR. Those species are Oryza sativa, Populus trichocarpa, Arabidopsis thaliana, Sorghum bicolor and Vitis vinifera.
Project Website
http://bfgr.plantbiology.msu.edu/
Funding
Funding provided by DOE grant DE-FG02-08ER64631 and USDA grant CSREES 2008-04232.
