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July 7, 2019  |  

The sequenced angiosperm genomes and genome databases.

Authors: Chen, Fei and Dong, Wei and Zhang, Jiawei and Guo, Xinyue and Chen, Junhao and Wang, Zhengjia and Lin, Zhenguo and Tang, Haibao and Zhang, Liangsheng

Angiosperms, the flowering plants, provide the essential resources for human life, such as food, energy, oxygen, and materials. They also promoted the evolution of human, animals, and the planet earth. Despite the numerous advances in genome reports or sequencing technologies, no review covers all the released angiosperm genomes and the genome databases for data sharing. Based on the rapid advances and innovations in the database reconstruction in the last few years, here we provide a comprehensive review for three major types of angiosperm genome databases, including databases for a single species, for a specific angiosperm clade, and for multiple angiosperm species. The scope, tools, and data of each type of databases and their features are concisely discussed. The genome databases for a single species or a clade of species are especially popular for specific group of researchers, while a timely-updated comprehensive database is more powerful for address of major scientific mysteries at the genome scale. Considering the low coverage of flowering plants in any available database, we propose construction of a comprehensive database to facilitate large-scale comparative studies of angiosperm genomes and to promote the collaborative studies of important questions in plant biology.

Journal: Frontiers in plant science
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00418
Year: 2018

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