Panzea Database

PANZEA is the first database for studying molecular evolutionary genomic of maize. The relational data model is selected and implemented in Oracle for PANZEA. I created PANZEA database when I worked at Bioinformatics Research Center, North Carolina State University as a research scientist and I am still remotely administrated it. PANZEA has the ability to storing, integrating, and visualizing DNA sequence, enzymatic, SSR markers, germplasm, and phenotypic data. An automated DNA sequence data submission tool has been created and this allows project researchers remotely submit their DNA sequence data directly to PANZEA. There are total of more than 2000 accessions, about 80% are maize germplasm, 10% inbred lines, 10% teosinte data. More than 200 SSR markers have been developed against each inbred line and teosinte. PANZEA also has aligned DNA sequences for the candidate genes studied by this project over 100 inbred lines. DNA sequences for chromosome 1 and 3, more than forty different phenotypic traits data are coming soon. On-line database search forms, reports have been created for the public. They can search or download germplasm, DNA sequence, gene/locus data, and much more directly from the web.