Finally, through huge effort the whole team made, The Asteraceae Database (TAD) was online and the team released its version 1.0 on June 1st 2021. Cheers!
The mission of the The Asteraceae Database is to collect and provide as much data and related information about Asteraceae as possible to promote the research and application of Asteraceae. Specifically, there are three missions. First, striving ADB becomes a research center of Asteraceae Omics in terms of organizing different omics data and providing researchers with convenient data accesses. Second, ADB will be an information center for the phylogeny of Asteraceae species via systematically sorting out the classification information of family, genus, and species, creating ID cards for them and deploying search engine. Third, ADB will turn into a research and knowledge center for understanding the characteristics of Asteraceae, in particular including: 1) the diversity and adaptation; 2) key morphologies (such as flowers); 3) key gene families; 4) specific metabolites, etc.
At the current version of ADB, it includes the multi-omics information of 14 asteraceous plants with whole-genome refereneces, transcriptomes, methylome, small RNA transcriptomes, degradome, epigenome, etc. At the same time, we have carried out a detailed collation of the evolutionary relationship and species information of Asteraceae. So far, it includes information on 42 tribes and 1,633 geneses. Through the research of Asteraceae plants in various fields in the past 20 years, we have gathered knowledge on diversity, adaptation, key morphologies, specific gene families, specific metabolites, etc. In addition, ADB provides a variety of ports for displaying and download the abundant information, and implement convenient search engines for related information.
We appreciated all the effort made by the Yang Lab, Gao Lab, Rao Lab and our technical team (D Wang, XW Cui & QW Xu).
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