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4. KOMUGI
Database- -Wheat Genetic Resources Database
Yukiko
Yamazaki1, Hisashi Tsujimoto2 and Taihachi
Kawahara3
1
Center for Genetic Resource Information, National Institute of
Genetics, Mishima, 411 Japan
2 Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City
University, Totsuka-ku, 244 Japan
3Plant Germ-plasm Institute, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto
University, Muko, 617 Japan
Introduction
KOMUGI, meaning wheat in Japanese, was established in 1995 as a
wheat network of Japan to ensure the long term conservation of
genetic resources and guarantee the availability and distribution of
the information for benefit of researchers. At present nineteen
institutions are members of KOMUGI. As a product of database working
group of KOMUGI, we have constructed the database, "KOMUGI DB", that
combines information of wheat genetic resources developed by and
maintained in these institutions. KOMUGI DB is the first exhaustive
public database which covers most wheat stocks in Japan. The Release
1.0 contains over 13000 accessions and is available from the KOMUGI
WWW home page (Fig.
1). The next
version will be released early 1998 with new format and some
images.
KOMUGI Database Release 1.0
Database Contents
The collaboration with 16 institutions and 24 colleagues resulted in
the assemblage of 13763 accessions including wild species (3293
accessions), landrace and cultivars (7111), testers and breeding
lines (226), mutants (130), isogenic lines (52), chromosome lines
(1547), artificial polyploids (171) and cytoplasmic substitution
lines (1233). Table
1 shows a sample
entry form which consists of 10 categories and 60 items with unique
record number. New items shown in the different column of
Table
1 will appear in
the next release as well as image files of phenotype. An asterisk
indicates the items with controlled vocabularies and syntax.
How to access the Database
There are database files (FileMaker Pro) available from the anonymous
FTP server. If you are interested in submitting your data,
information is available by contacting the address for general
information below. The most user-friendly way to browse the KOMUGI DB
is to access the KOMUGI WWW home page provided by the SHIGEN (SHared
Information of GENetic resources) server at the National Institute of
Genetics, Mishima, Japan. Genetic resources databases for many other
species are also available through the server.
Electronic
Addresses
KOMUGI WVW home page ...........
http://www.shigen.nig.ac.jp/wheat.html
anonymous FTP server ............... shigen.lab.nig.ac.jp
SHIGEN server............................
http://www.shigen.nig.ac.jp
general information .................... shigen@lab.nig.ac.jp
Future plan
The development of the direct data management system through each
researcher can submit and/or update their own data by connecting to
the remote computer running the database is ongoing. Integration with
relevant databases such as wheat DNA clones DB and barley genetic
resources DB is planed to be implemented in the near future.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This work is supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid from the Ministry of
Education, Science, Sport and Culture of Japan. We would like to
thank all of KOMUGI colleagues and wheat researchers who continue to
support this activity.
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