OVERVIEW:

A consortium of labs in the United States and Europe will fully sequence the gene-space of M. truncatula by 2006. Six chromosomes will be sequenced under the NSF project "Sequencing the Gene Space of the Model Legume, Medicago Truncatula," and two will be sequenced by partners in Europe, who have received funding from the 6th E.U. Framework Programme. Principal investigators on the NSF project are Nevin Young (University of Minnesota), Bruce Roe ( University of Oklahoma), and Chris Town (TIGR). The project also depends on many other collaborators.

TIGR is participating in the Medicago Genome Sequencing Project and has been assigned chromosomes 2, 7. TIGR is also part of the International Medicago Genome Annotation Group (IMGAG).

• Medicago truncatula Gbrowse Mtr 1.0 pseudomolecule release

   

• Medicago truncatula Gene Index (MtGI)

All publicly available Medicago ESTs as well as transcripts from GenBank have been assembled into contigs and built into the Medicago truncatula Gene Index (MtGI).
  

• BAC ends

Medicago BAC ends have been sequenced by the following groups/institutions: TIGR, INRA/Genoscope, JIC/Sanger Center, Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Hungary, The Crop Biotechnology Center, Texas A&M University, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota. Files of all publicly available BAC ends can be downloaded from our ftp site.

  

• Medicago truncatula repeats

For de novo repeat detection, all Medicago truncatula BACS in Genbank arebeing run through RepeatScout on a regular basis and the results made available on our ftp site. RepeatScout is a de novo identification of repeat families via extension of consensus seeds developed by Price A.L.,Jones N.C and Pevzner P.A.

A Medicago truncatula repeat database constructed by similarity to known repeat elements can be found as part of the TIGR Repeat Databases .

 

• The Affymetrix GeneChip® Medicago Genome Array
  The Affymetrix GeneChip® Medicago Genome Array is designed specifically to monitor gene expression in Medicago truncatula, Medicago sativa, and the symbiotic organism Sinorhizobium meliloti. The tables/database contains all probes and their corresponding targets, gene ids are linked to the TIGR Medicago Gene Index TCs/ests, IMGAG genes and TIGR Sinorhizobium meliloti CMR.
  

• Medicago 16K Microarray