Gramene announces release of new website layout.
Based upon the needs of and feedback from Gramene users, we would like to
announce the release of a new look to the Gramene home page and navigation
(www.gramene.org).
Gramene's new navigation bar now uses drop-down menus and the following
navigation:
* Clicking on the Gramene logo will return users to the Gramene Home
Page.
* All Gramene databases can be searched from the "Search" option on the
menu bar.
* "Genomes" offers a quick links for browsing the rice, maize and
Arabidopsis genomes.
* "Download" provides links to important download pages for
installation of the Gramene databases onto individual computers.
* "Resources" hosts links to our species pages, links page, rice
genome newsletters, glossary and "submit a term" pages.
* All Help files are listed under the "help" tab, including release
notes, tutorials, help files, FAQs and other documentation.
* The lower navigation bar offers quick links to available species pages.
Other Home Page features include:
* Quick links to specific information, including species and data
specific information.
* Identification of the current Gramene release number and date.
* A general search option
* Gramene Tips
* Rice genetic News
* Gramene Outreach Calendar
To learn more about Gramene Navigation, review the navigation tutorial
available at:
<http://www.gramene.org/tutorials/navigation.html>http://www.gramene.org/tutorials/navigation.html
Or attend a Gramene workshop:
* At the Plant and Animal Genome XIV Conference on Jan 17, 2006
(http://www.intl-pag.org/14/14-gramene.html)
* At the 31st annual Rice Technical Working Group meeting on Feb 25,
2006 (http://beaumont.tamu.edu/RTWG2006/GrameneWorkshop.asp?mt=gw)
To read Gramene's most recent publication see P. Jaiswal, J. Ni, I. Yap,
D. Ware, W. Spooner, K. Youens-Clark, L. Ren, C. Liang, W. Zhao, K.
Ratnapu, B. Faga, P. Canaran, M. Fogleman, C. Hebbard, S. Avraham, S.
Schmidt, T. M. Casstevens, E. S. Buckler, L. Stein, and S. McCouch (2006),
Gramene: a bird's eye view of cereal genomes, Nucleic Acids Research, 34,
Database issue D717-D723]
at http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/34/suppl_1/D717.
Claire E. Hebbard
Gramene Outreach Coordinator
G15 Bradfield Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
607-255-4199 or
607-255-3103
www.gramene.org
Cereals are mankind's most important source of calories. Gramene can assist
in research on agriculturally important features in rice, maize, wheat and
other grasses.
