New at MaizeGDB: The "Site Map" is a detailed launchpad to our tools, datasets, and resources. From the "Explore MaizeGDB" link in our menu, jump to Data Centers, JBrowse, BLAST, SNPversity, PanEffect, Phylostrata, Fusarium Protein Toolkit, and more. maizegdb.org/sitemap

Screenshot of the Phylostrata tool with a set of example B73 gene models.

🌽New tool at MaizeGDB: Explore evolutionary origins of maize proteins! Search up to 100 genes to visualize conservation or to download homologs’ subcellular localization & GO terms! Whole-genome results available for download for B73 and the NAM founders. phylostrata.maizegdb.org

The genetic architecture of cell type–specific cis regulation in maize Gene expression and complex phenotypes are determined by the activity of cis-regulatory elements. However, an understanding of how extant genetic variants affect cis regulation remains limited. Here, ...

New data from the Bob Schmitz lab (Marand 2025) on cell type-specific cis-regulation in maize! This study, in @science.org, reveals how DNA changes impact expression and maize traits. Explore the 176 new tracks on the browser under Epigenetics and DNA binding.

➡️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We're excited to share PlantCAD browser tracks: a new, unpublished dataset integrating AI techniques for plant genome analysis. Explore it here: github.com/andorfc/Plan...
We welcome the community's feedback and innovative use cases for this data!

🌽 New browser tracks: Dr. Laura Tibbs-Cortes aligned proteomes spanning 11 evolutionary levels (from E. coli to sorghum) aligned to B73, NAM & PanAnd maize genomes! Additional tools coming soon! jbrowse.maizegdb.org?loc=chr2%3A2...

Join us Thursday, Mar 6th (2–5 pm) before the Maize Meeting for the Maize Genetics & Genomics Resources Workshop, "Shaping the Future of Maize Pan-Genomes." We'll have 8 talks on building & visualizing pan-genomes plus a discussion led by Matthew Hufford & Candy Hirsch. maizegdb.org/mgc/maizemee...

Need a flyer to share or print for #MGM2025? Download it here: documents.maizegdb.org/maizemeeting...

The announcement for the 67th Annual Maize Genetics Meeting (#MGM2025) is here! 📅 Join us March 6-9, 2025, at Union Station, St. Louis, MO, USA. 🌽 View the PDF announcement: documents.maizegdb.org/maizemeeting...

Functional annotation and meta-analysis of maize transcriptomes reveal genes involved in biotic and abiotic stress - BMC Genomics Background Environmental stress factors, such as biotic and abiotic stress, are becoming more common due to climate variability, significantly affecting global maize yield. Transcriptome profiling stu...

Congrats to Rita Hayford on the publication of her work mapping RNA-Seq reads from 24 publicly available datasets (17 abiotic & 7 biotic studies) to B73v5 and annotating over 3k stress-related functional annotation of maize gene models. doi.org/10.1186/s128...

Cover of the GENETICS Model Organism Updates issue.

A new issue of #GENETICS is out today! It features updates from @alliancegenome.bsky.social, @flybase.bsky.social, @pombase.bsky.social, @tairnews.bsky.social, @maizegdb.bsky.social, www.informatics.jax.org, fungidb.org, www.echinobase.org & thecellvision.org. Read the full issue: bit.ly/44E2xpG

A unified VCF data set from nearly 1,500 diverse maize accessions and resources to explore the genomic landscape of maize bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

Here we hope to solve this by providing
1) a regularly updated VCF of public sequence data
2) user-friendly online tools to search and analyze the data

Absolutely fantastic work from Carson and Maggie at
@maizegdb.bsky.social. Check out our preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The schedule for the 2024 Maize Genetics Meeting (#MGM2024) is now available on the MGM homepage or directly at this link.
documents.maizegdb.org/maizemeeting...

An improved pan-gene dataset is included in the January update. Bulk downloads of the pan-gene CDS and protein sequences, alignments, and various table views of the data are available in the pan-gene download directory. download.maizegdb.org/Pan-genes/Pa...

Thank you @erinsparks.bsky.social for the invite!

There will be several pre-Maize Meeting workshops this year. MaizeGDB will be hosting a 2-part workshop on the new pan-genome, pan-gene, and AI tools at MaizeGDB. Some of the workshops have limited space and require registration. www.maizegdb.org/mgc/maizemee...

Photo of the Maize Genetics Meeting homepage.

Reminder: The deadline for early registration and to submit a talk abstract for the Maize Genetics Meeting is Friday! www.maizegdb.org/mgc/maizemee...