Subject: Announcing New Plant Genome Database CD-ROM

From: Steve Beckstrom-Sternberg <[email-masked]>
Date: 19 May 1995 15:18:31 GMT

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:

	[email-masked]

Comments can be sent to [email-masked]
Requests for help can be sent to [email-masked]

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