Review Article

Barley Genomics: An Overview

Table 1

Barley genomic resources.

DatabasesWebsite URLApplication

Barley Genetic Stockshttp://ace.untamo.net/cgi-bin/ace/searches/basicProvides information on the morphological & genetic background of barley mutants and contains information on 736 barley translocation and duplication lines.
US Barley Germplasmhttp://barleyworld.org/northamericanbarley/germplasm.phpContains information on barley recombinant chromosome substitution lines and North American barley mapping populations.
EBDBhttp://pgrc-35.ipk-gatersleben.de/portal/page/portal/PG_BICGH/P_BICGH/P_BICGH_RESOURCES/P_BICGHI_RESEBDBThe European Barley Database (EBDB) contains passport and evaluation data of 155,000 barley accessions including the international barley core collection.
ICARDA Barley varietieshttp://www.icarda.cgiar.org/Crops_Varieties.htm#BarleyProvides an index of barley variety releases from ICARDA, 1977–2005.
Barley TILLINGhttp://www.scri.ac.uk/research/genetics/BarleyTILLINGA reverse genetics platform, which can be screened for 8,600 barley (cultivar “Optic”) EMS mutagenized lines.
CR-ESThttp://pgrc.ipk-gatersleben.de/cr-est/index.phpBarley EST database containing sequences, functional annotation and clustering information of more than 232,000 ESTs.
HarvESThttp://harvest.ucr.eduBarley EST database containing unigene sequences and the oligo design of Barley1 Affymetrix array. It also includes a 1000 barley SNP loci genetic map showing syntenic information with rice.
HvGIhttp://compbio.dfci.harvard.edu/tgi/cgi-bin/tgi/gimain.pl?gudb=barleyThis Hordeum vulgare Gene Index provides functional annotation information, 70-mer oligo predictions and in silico gene expression data for 50,000 unigenes.
NCBI Barley genome viewhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mapview/map_search.cgi?taxid=4513Provides an overview about the available genomic and genomic survey sequences (GSS) of barley.
IBSChttp://barleygenome.orgActivities of the International Barley Genome Sequencing Consortium (IBSC) are highlighted.
Barley genomehttp://phymap.ucdavis.edu:8080/barleyBarley physical mapping database and available BAC clones together with the accompaning ESTs.
Barley physical maphttp://pgrc.ipk-gatersleben.de/kuenzel/barleymap.htmlBarley translocation breakpoints integrated into the Igri/Franka-derived RFLP linkage map.
Barley genomicshttp://barleygenomics.wsu.eduContains information about barley molecular markers, genetic maps, BACs and mutants.
Barley DBhttp://ukcrop.net/perl/ace/search/BarleyDBContains information about barley germ plasm, molecular markers, genetic maps and BACs.
Gramenehttp://www.gramene.orgProvides an overview of comparative maps of cereals including available updated molecular markers and maps of barley.
GrainGeneshttp://wheat.pw.usda.gov/GG2/index.shtmlTriticeae database provides an overview about available maps, genetic markers, QTLs and gene expression data.
Barley dbEST SSRshttp://www.genome.clemson.edu/projects/barley/ssr.dbest.html15,182 barley simple sequence repeats (SSR) were predicted using the available 328,724 dbEST dataset.
Barley SNP databasehttp://bioinf.scri.ac.uk/barley_snpdbBarley SNP linkage map.
Barley RFLP databasehttp://pgrc.ipk-gatersleben.de/rflp/rflp.htmlContains data of mapped barley RFLP-markers from IPK.
Barley DArThttp://www.triticarte.com/content/barley_diversity_analysis.htmlHigh density consensus map of barley DArT markers linking to existing SSR, RFLP and STS loci.
BarleyBasehttp://www.plexdb.org/plex.php?database=BarleyAn online dataset for storing and visualizing gene expression data of the Barley 1 GeneChip Affymetrix array.
BDC-GEDhttp://pgrc.ipk-gatersleben.de/seedsContains barley developing caryopses gene expression data.