From sbeckstr@nalusda.gov Thu May 25 10:39:15 EDT 1995
Article: 6514 of bionet.plants
Path: bigblue.oit.unc.edu!concert!news-server.ncren.net!taco.cc.ncsu.edu!biosci!rutgers!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!lamarck.sura.net!sprout.nalusda.gov!usenet
From: Steve Beckstrom-Sternberg <sbeckstr@nalusda.gov>
Newsgroups: bionet.plants
Subject: Announcing New Plant Genome Database CD-ROM
Date: 19 May 1995 15:18:31 GMT
Organization: Genome Informatics Group - USDA - ARS - NAL
Lines: 30
Message-ID: <3pics7$3fg@sprout.nalusda.gov>
NNTP-Posting-Host: rapd.nalusda.gov
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3 sun4c)
X-URL: news:bionet.plants

Announcing the availability of the Plant Genome Database CD-ROM, a
compilation of plant genome databases, which have been dumped as text from
their ACEDB versions and marked up with hypertext links.  The data are
browsable from the Sun UNIX X-Windows, PC Windows, and Mac Mosaic hypertext
browsers.  In addition, the genome data have been indexed to allow full-text
Boolean searching for Mac, Sun, Windows, and DOS.  Where images exist, they
have been linked to their respective databases.  Databases include information 
on: Arabidopsis, soybean, Chlamydomonas, small grains (wheat, barley, etc.), 
maize, rice, tomato, potato, pepper, and forest trees. 

Also included, are various related documents:  newsletters for Arabidopsis
(Weeds World), forest trees (Dendrome), rice (The Rice Genetics Newsletter), 
and tomato (Report of the Tomato Genetic Cooperative); plant genome thesauri 
for cytogenetics, morphology, and references; a controlled genetic vocabulary;
and a listing of the Agricultural Genome curators.

The CD-ROM can be obtained by sending e-mail to the Plant Genome Data and
Information Center:

	pgenome@nalusda.gov


Comments can be sent to feedback@probe.nalusda.gov
Requests for help can be sent to help@probe.nalusda.gov

Genome Informatics Group
USDA, National Agricultural Library
10301 Baltimore Blvd.
Beltsville, MD  20705



