Mercator: A fast and simple web server for genome scale functional annotation of plant sequence data

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1250-1258

  Lohse, Marc ^a   Nagel, Axel ^a   Herter, Thomas ^a   May, Patrick ^a,f   Schroda, Michael ^e   Zrenner, Rita ^b   Tohge, Takayuki ^a   Fernie, Alisdair R ^a   Stitt, Mark ^a   Usadel, Björn ^c,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF VEGETABLE AND ORNAMENTAL CROPS   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^e Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Genome annotation; MapMan; Next generation sequencing; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY; GENOME; PROTEIN; SOFTWARE; VISUALIZATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHLAMYDOMONAS;

VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHLAMYDOMONAS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; INTERNET; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENOME; PROCEDURES; RICE;

ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENOME, PLANT; INTERNET; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT PROTEINS; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84898056944     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pce.12231     Document Type: Article

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