The Legume Information System
The Legume Information System (LIS) integrates genetic and molecular data from multiple legume species and enables cross-species genomic, transcript and map comparisons. The goal is to help researchers leverage data-rich model plants to fill knowledge gaps across crop plant species and navigate diverse genomic and genetic data.
LIS is undergoing an extensive redesign to accommodate:
- Greatly increased data volume and complexity
- High-resolution transcriptome sequence and quantifications
- Essentially complete genome sequences for three legume genomes
- Whole-genome resequencing and SNP data
Release of "LIS II" is planned for early 2010. The new site will initially have two main focuses:
- Visualization tools for genome-wide comparisons
- A convenient "one-stop" search page to allow searches across all legume genomic data, for markers, traits, sequence, regions. Where appropriate, users would be delivered to fine-grained data at specialized sites.
Later phases will provide visualization tools for genome-wide diversity data, including haplotype and resequencing data.
Most importantly, LIS is a site for the legume community. Its value depends on the data that researchers create. If you would like to contribute map or genomic data, or would like LIS to point to data at your site, please let us know.
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