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GermOnline, a new cross-species community annotation database on germ-line development and gametogenesis

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We report the development of a unique knowledge base of phenotypic and gene expression data relevant to germ-line development and gametogenesis. GermOnline includes an interactive platform for cross-species gene annotation by research scientists. This new approach to knowledge management partitions genomes of key model systems into groups of genes involved in important conserved biological processes.

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Figure 1: GermOnline welcome, locus report and expression data pages.

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Acknowledgements

We thank B. Braun for discussions, B. Masdoua and V. Cassen for contributing to programme development and M. Cherry and M. Yamamoto for hosting the database on local servers. We acknowledge funding for Workshops from the SNF, CNRS, INSERM and the US National Science Foundation. The initial stages of this project were supported by an EU grant awarded to N.L. Continuing support is provided by a grant from the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics awarded to M.P. Software and database developers are C.W., R.B., C.S.d.M., L.H., R.K. and U.S.

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  1. Biozentrum & Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Basel, Switzerland

    M Primig, C Wiederkehr, R Basavaraj, L Hermida, R Koch & U Schlecht

  2. Institut de Génétique Humaine, Montpellier, France

    C Sarrauste de Menthière & N Lamb

  3. Oxford University, UK

    H G Dickinson

  4. Hopital Cochin, Paris, France

    M Fellous

  5. Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    J A Grootegoed

  6. The Stowers Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, USA

    R S Hawley

  7. The University of Rennes I, Bretagne, France

    B Jégou

  8. Université Paris VI, France

    B Maro

  9. Institut Curie, Paris, France

    A Nicolas

  10. The Whitehead Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    T Orr-Weaver

  11. Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

    T Schedl

  12. Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA

    A Villeneuve

  13. Columbia University, New York, New York, USA

    D J Wolgemuth

  14. The University of Tokyo, Japan

    M Yamamoto

  15. Université Paris XI, Orsay, France

    D Zickler

  16. The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    R E Esposito

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Primig, M., Wiederkehr, C., Basavaraj, R. et al. GermOnline, a new cross-species community annotation database on germ-line development and gametogenesis. Nat Genet 35, 291–292 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng1203-291

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