About MaizeGDB

Welcome to MaizeGDB!

MaizeGDB is a community-oriented, long-term, federally funded informatics service to researchers focused on the crop plant and model organism Zea mays.

MaizeGDB is a founding member of AgBioData, a consortuim of agriculture-related online resources which is committed to making agriculture-related research data FAIR.

Maize Genetics Meeting

The 67th Annual Maize Genetics Meeting will be held from March 6th - 9th, 2025 at the Union Station, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

The 66th Annual Maize Genetics Meeting was held from February 29th - March 3rd, 2024 at the Raleigh Convention Center in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.

Archive

Featured tools at MaizeGDB

A resource to BLAST your sequence against maize genomes and annotations.

A data warehouse to access genomic, proteomic, and literature data for maize.

A platform to compare gene and protein expression data across multiple genomes.

A set of comprehensive metabolic pathway resources for maize.

Other tools at MaizeGDB

SNPversity 2.0

SNPversity: A tool to access large-scale maize diversity data.

TYPSimSelector

TYPSimSelector: A tool that sorts identity-by-state values derived from SNP datasets for accessions in the Ames Diversity Panel.

PanEffect

PanEffect: A tool to explore the variant effects across the maize pan-genome.

Bin viewer

Bin Viewer: A tool to explore data in regions defined by genetic bins.

GenomeQC

GenomeQC: A tool to assess the quality of genome assemblies and annotations.

Maize Feature Store

MFS: A centralized resource to manage and analyze curated maize multi-omics features for machine learning applications.

Pedigree Viewer

Pedigree Viewer: A tool to visualize maize pedigree data and networks.

PAST

PAST: A tool that assigns your SNPs to genes and your genes to metabolic pathways.

Genome Context Viewer

GCV: A web-app that visualizes genomic context data in a single, federated interface by using functional annotations as a unit of search and comparison.

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MaizeGDB Working Group

Working Group

MaizeGDB is guided by a working group comprised of a wide variety of people from the maize community and beyond. The members were selected due to their broad-based expertise in order to provide overall guidance to the MaizeGDB project, and continue the work begun by the MaizeDB to MaizeGDB Transition Steering Commitee.

Membership

Alice Barkan

Qunfeng Dong

Candice Hirsch

David Jackson

Thomas Lubberstedt

Dorrie Main (Chair)

Marty Sachs*

James Schnable

Mark Settles

* These close collaborators serve in an ex officio capacity on the Working Group.

Documentation

August 2006	Status Report	Authored by the MaizeGDB Team
November 2006	Guidance	Authored by the Working Group
January 2007	Response	Authored by the MaizeGDB Team
January 2008	Status Report	Authored by the MaizeGDB Team
January 2008	Guidance	Authored by the Working Group
May 2009	Status Report	Authored by the MaizeGDB Team
June 2009	Guidance	Authored by the Working Group
January 2010	Status Report	Authored by the MaizeGDB Team
January 2010	Guidance	Authored by the Working Group
December 2010	Status Report	Authored by the MaizeGDB Team
December 2010	Guidance	Authored by the Working Group + Response Authored by the MaizeGDB Team
March 2011		Informal, no reports
December 2011		Informal, no reports
April 2012	Status Report	Authored by the MaizeGDB Team
April 2012	Guidance	Authored by the Working Group
August 2013	Status Report	Authored by the MaizeGDB Team
August 2013	Guidance	Authored by the Working Group
February 2016	Status Report	Authored by the MaizeGDB Team
February 2016	Guidance	Authored by the Working Group
September 2018	Status Report	Authored by the MaizeGDB Team
September 2018	Guidance	Authored by the Working Group