Plant Transcription Factor Databases
With the available genome sequence of model organisms, we predicted, annotated and analyzed all putative TFs at the genome scale for five plant species, Arabidopsis, Poplar, Oryza sativa, the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and the moss Physcomitrella patens. We are also working on the available EST sequences from 17 plant species including crops (maize, barley, wheat, etc), fruits (apple, orange, grape, etc), trees (pine, spruce, etc) and other economically important plants (cotton, potato, soybean, etc).
To provide comprehensive information for the putative TFs, we made extensive annotations at both family and gene levels. A brief introduction and key references are presented for each family. For each identified TF, functional domains, similar entries in various databases such as UniProt, RefSeq and TransFac are displayed as diagrams. Annotations with Gene Ontology, UniGene Expression are shown and putative TF orthologs among all these 22 species are listed. In addition, PlantTFDB has a simple and user-friendly interface to allow users to search by IDs or free texts, to make sequence similarity search using BLAST and to download all TF sequences.
Publication for more information and for citing this work:
PlantTFDB: a comprehensive plant transcription factor database
An-Yuan Guo, Xin Chen, Ge Gao, He Zhang, Qi-Hui Zhu, Xiao-Chuan Liu, Ying-Fu Zhong, Xiaocheng Gu, Kun He* and Jingchu Luo*
Nucleic Acids Research. 2008 36: 966-969
