Biofuel Feedstock Genomics Resource

The Biofuel Feedstock Genomics Resource (BFGR) is a USDA/DOE funded project that provides uniform annotation of gene and transcript assembly sequences for a wide variety of model genome and lignocellulosic biofuel crop species. The bioinformatic tools within BFGR will be of use to researchers who are studying plants that are important for lignocellulosic biofuel production.

Using our search page, annotation for a particular sequence can be found using BLAST alignments, sequence identifiers or functional annotation keywords. Users may also search for sequences in our model genome-based genome browsers. Small sequence repeats (SSRs) and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from particular species can be found using our search page.

Currently, sequence data from 23 model genome and lignocellulosic biofuel feedstock species have been analyzed and annotated.

Arabidopsis thaliana	Oryza sativa	Sorghum propinquum
Brachypodium distachyon	Panicum virgatum	Sorghum bicolor
Cenchrus ciliaris	Picea glauca	Triticum aestivum
Helianthus annuus	Picea sitchensis	Triticum monococcum
Hordeum vulgare	Pinus taeda	Triticum turgidum subsp. durum
Leymus cinereus x Leymus triticoides	Populus tremula x Populus tremuloides	Zea mays
Medicago sativa	Populus trichocarpa	Vitis vinifera
Medicago truncatula	Secale cereale

BFGR is maintained and hosted by the Buell Lab in the Plant Biology Department at Michigan State University.

Quick Annotation Search

Search terms:

Species:

All Species Arabidopsis thaliana Brachypodium distachyon Cenchrus ciliaris Leymus cinereus x Leymus triticoides Helianthus annuus Hordeum vulgare Medicago sativa Medicago truncatula Oryza sativa Panicum virgatum Picea glauca Picea sitchensis Pinus taeda Populus tremula x Populus tremuloides Populus trichocarpa Secale cereale Sorghum bicolor Sorghum propinquum Triticum aestivum Triticum turgidum subsp. durum Triticum monococcum Vitis vinifera Zea mays

What's New

17 July 2009

A Quick Annotation Search form has been added to the BFGR home page. The BLAST form has been moved to the unified search page. Links to the Annotation Report Pages should load more quickly. Also, links to Germplasm Resources have been added to the Species Overview pages.

See the What's New page for more information.

Community Input

We welcome input from researchers. If there is some way in which we can improve this resource, we would like to hear from you. Please use the comment form on our contact page to send us your suggestions.

Funding provided by DOE grant DE-FG02-08ER64631 and USDA grant CSREES 2008-04232.
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Photos courtesy of Shawn Kaeppler, Kevin Childs, Hugo.arg, and the USDA Photo Gallery.