GrainGenes, a database for Triticeae and Avena, is a comprehensive resource for molecular and phenotypic information for wheat, barley, rye, and other related species, including oat. GrainGenes is a digital platform that serves small grains research communities as their central data repository and as a facilitator for community activities.

 

GrainGenes has been hard-funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service to ensure long-term data sustainability and interactivity. (An obsolete page about GrainGenes can be found here).

 

GrainGenes Liaison Committee provides oversight to GrainGenes.

 

GrainGenes's snail address is: USDA ARS WRRC, 800 Buchanan Street, Albany, CA 94710-1105.

 

Link for "How to cite GrainGenes."

 

Please let us know how GrainGenes can improve its interface, tools, and services by using the Feedback button.

 

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CURRENT GRAINGENES TEAM MEMBERS

Taner Sen (Lead Scientist, Research Computational Biologist) Google Scholar 510.559.5982 taner.sen@usda.gov

Gerard R. Lazo (Curator, System Administrator, Geneticist) 510.559.5640 gerard.lazo@usda.gov

Victoria Blake (Curator) victoria.blake@montana.edu

Steve Michel (System Administrator, Programmer) 510.559.6194 steve.michel@usda.gov

Eric Yao (Computational Biologist) eric.yao@usda.gov

Elly Poretsky (Postdoc) Google Scholar 510.559.6146

Parva Sharma (Postdoc) Google Scholar 240.886.8872 pksharma@umd.edu

Andrew Dickson (Postdoc) Google Scholar

Jinglie Zhou (Postdoc) Google Scholar

 

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FORMER GRAINGENES TEAM MEMBERS (current positions)

Busra Cagirici (Postdoc at Stanford) Google Scholar

Laurel Cooper (Research Associate at Oregon State University) Google Scholar

Sarah Odell (PhD student at UC Davis) Google Scholar

Margaret Woodhouse (Computational Biologist at MaizeGDB at USDA-ARS) Google Scholar

Dave Hane (System Administrator at USWBSI)

Dave Matthews (retired)

Olin Anderson (retired)

Gary Hart (retired)

 

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