All past SGN news items
The The March 2012 SOL newsletter is available for download. [Mar 20, 2012]
Join the Plant Breeding and Genomics community of practice on Thursday April 5 at 1pm Eastern Daylight Time (GMT - 4:00) (12pm Central, 11am Mountain, 10am Pacific) to learn how to develop SNP-based tetraploid maps for potato. Register. [Mar 23, 2012]
The first-ever internet resource aimed at quickly putting basic research on crop genomes into practice, eXtension (pronounced E-extension) at www.extension.org/plant_breeding_genomics, reached the milestone of 100,000 views this month. (more...) [Dec 20, 2011]
The Lippman lab working with the laboratory of Y. Eshed at the Weizmann Institute, Israel have developed indel molecular markers for mapping purposes using S. lycopersicum and S. pimpinellifolium as parents. The indels were identified based on the filtered alignments with chromosomal physical positions, indel size and flanking sequences (300bp). 9474 indels were predicted between S. lycopersicum cv. Heinz and S. pimpinellifolium: 5503 are S. pimpinellifolium insertions and 3971 are S. pimpinellifolium deletions
Analyze for QTLs interactively and examine underlying genomic annotations. [Sept 07, 2011]
The The October 2011 SOL newsletter is available for download. [Oct 20, 2011]
The African SOL project, AFRI-SOL, has been formed with a focus on African Solanaceous plants and information sharing between researchers. [August 15, 2011]
SGN is now carrying a mirror of the potato genome assemblies and annotations recently released by the PGSC. [August 2, 2011]
The potato genome has been published in Nature by an international consortium of scientists. [July 15, 2011]
The SOL newsletter for June 2011 is available for download . [June 20, 2011]
A consensus map showing the QTL positions for late blight resistance and maturity traits is now available, kindly provided by S. Danan and V. Lefebvre and collegues from INRA Avignon, France. [June 1, 2011]
The ITAG2.3 tomato genome annotation, based on assembly v2.40 has been released and is available in the SGN genome browser, in SGN BLAST, and for bulk download. [April 29, 2010]
478 tomato accessions scored for 52 distinct phenotypes in 459 field plots.
More phenotypes, SNP genotypes, and potato data from SolCAP will be available soon. [March 28, 2011]
The SOL newsletter for March 2011 is available for download.
The research groups of Michael C. Schatz and Zachary B. Lippman at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York have generated transcriptome sequences of the green-fruited wild tomato species Solanum peruvianum.
These datasets also can be accessed by BLAST
[March 17, 2011]
The eXtension knowledge environment was released at an event at the PAG conference. eXtension includes tutorials for SGN tools produced by the SolCAP project. [January 31, 2011]
Three summer internship positions are available at SGN. Please use the application forms provided.
[January 31, 2011]
Three new maps have been added to SGN: The maps of two Nicotiana species (1, 2), and a tomato map. Many thanks to the submitters, Feinan Wu, David Francis and their colleagues for making the maps available.
[January 6, 2011]
The program of the Solanaceae session at the Plant and Animal Genome meeting (Tuesday, Jan 18) is now public. Due to the high number of excellent abstracts received, the session has been extended. It will feature 9 talks on different Solanaceae genome topics.
Looking forward to meeting you in San Diego! Giovanni Giuliano and Dave Douches, Session Chairs [November 9, 2010]
The SOL newsletter for October 2010 is available for download .
The Solanaceae workshop at the upcoming PAG 2011 meeting is seeking abstracts, submissions are due September 30, 2010. [September 13, 2010]
A list of 100 species proposed to be sequenced by the SOL-100 project is available. [September 7, 2010]
The International Tomato Genome Sequencing Project has released a new version (2.30) of the Solanum lycopersicum genome assembly. [August 9, 2010]
The International Tomato Genome Sequencing Project has released a new version (2.10) of the Solanum lycopersicum genome assembly. [June 25, 2010]
The SOL newsletter for June 2010 is available.
Phenom Networks is a web-based engine for knowledge representation of complex phenotypes. [May 28, 2010]
The International Tomato Genome Sequencing Project has released a new version (1.50) of the Solanum lycopersicum genome assembly. [May 16, 2010]
All SGN open source code is now freely available from github.com/solgenomics, which makes it easy for developers to share code. [May 3, 2010]
The Kazusa DNA Research Center has released 13,227 full length cDNA sequences for tomato Micro-Tom. [April 2, 2010]
A new tomato genome build is available based on the CABOG assembler, in SGN BLAST and FTP.
[March 26, 2009]
SGN hosts a collection of eggplant landraces and closely-related species. Contributed by Rachel Meyer from the New York Botanical Garden.
[March 26, 2009]
The SOL newsletter for March 2010 is available from SGN.
[March 16, 2009]
SGN releases a beta version of an expression database populated with the Nicotiana expression atlas (TobEA). [Mar 9, 2010]
The ITAG tomato genome annotation, based on assembly v1.00 has been released and is available in the SGN genome browser and in SGN BLAST. [Feb 25, 2010]
An SGN mirror site is available at Wageningen University (http://solgenomics.wur.nl), hosted by Dr. Richard Finkers. [Jan 22, 2010]
Summer Internships at SGN
Summer internships are available at SGN for undergraduate students. Applications are due March 15. [Jan 20, 2010]
A prerelease of the tomato shotgun genome sequence is available for BLAST and download (FTP). [December 1, 2009]
The SOL2009 was a great success. Photos and final abstract book are now available on the conference site. [November 28, 2009]
The LycoCyc pathway genome database, part of the SolCyc databases, has been updated to the latest unigene build for tomato. [October 30, 2009]
A new SNaPshot physical map is available on SGN. This map was generated at the Arizona Genomics Institute with funding provided by the NSF. Read the full announcement. [October 30, 2009]
SGN is featured in a blog on the bioinformatics training site OpenHelix as the tip of the week. [October 29, 2009]
SGN can now be reached under the new domain name http://solgenomics.net. Requests to http://sgn.cornell.edu/ get forwarded to the new domain name. [October 13, 2009]
The Potato Genome Sequencing Consortium has released the first draft sequence of the potato genome, available at www.potatogenome.net. [September 23, 2009]
More than 400 accessions were phenotyped by EUSOL, using the Solanaceae Phenotype ontology, and are now available at SGN, with cross-links to the EUSOL website. This data was kindly contributed by Dr. Richard Finkers.
[September 22, 2009]
The SOL newsletter for September 2009 is available from SGN.
[September 17, 2009]
BAC end and BAC sequence data from the Potato Genome Sequencing Consortium available on the SGN FTP and SGN BLAST servers [Sep 15, 2009].
SGN has released a new in-silico PCR tool for Solanaceae sequence datasets [Aug 26, 2009]
The SOL newsletter for June 2009 is available from SGN.
[June 10, 2009]
A new SGN unigene build for tomato species is available. [May 1, 2009]
A new tomato map, kindly provided by José M. Jiménez-Gómez, is available on SGN.
[March 17, 2009]
The SOL newsletter for March 2009 is available from SGN.
[March 6, 2009]
The Phenom Network engine by Dani Zamir and Yaniv Semel represents knowledge of complex traits and has tomato
ILs, barley and rose traits with more organisms being added soon.
[February 28, 2009]
SGN now allows QTL analyses to be run on populations and traits in the database
[February 12, 2009]
Plant MetGenMAP is a web-based analysis package for integrating omics-type datasets with various biological information. It was developed by Dr. Zhangjun Fei's group at BTI.
[January 27, 2009]
New COSII-based pepper and eggplant maps are available on SGN, kindly provided by Dr. Feinan Wu.
[December 5, 2008]
The USDA-funded SolCAP program has started (more information on http://solcap.msu.edu).
[November 12, 2008]
The EU-SOL funded tomato core collection phenotype database is now available at https://www.eu-sol.wur.nl/.
[November 12, 2008]
Giorgio Valle's lab has sequenced 100,000 fosmid ends and made them available on SGN.
[October 23, 2008]
Fernando Carrari's lab has released a first draft of the mitochondrial genome sequence.
[October 12, 2008]
SGN has added 628 pepper EMS mutants to the phenotype database. This population was generated and phenotyped at the lab of Ilan Paran, Volcani ARO, Israel.
[September 12, 2008]
SGN has added 1528 tobacco locus identifiers to the locus database.
[September, 2008]
The SOL newsletter for August 2008 is available from SGN.
[August 14, 2008]
SGN has released a new, AJAX-based ontology browser.
[Aug 10, 2008]
The Tomato Functional Genomics Database integrates and expands several databases by Dr. Zhangjun Fei's group at BTI, including the Tomato Expression DB, the Tomato Metabolite DB, as well as the Tomato Small RNA DB. See ted.bti.cornell.edu
[July 22, 2008]
The SOL newsletter for March 2008 is available from SGN.
[May 15, 2008]
The website of the EU-SOL, an integrated project funded by the European Commission Framework program, was launched.
[March 29, 2008]
SGN is now hosted at the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI)
The SGN database group moved from Cornell to the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) in June, 2008.
[June 10, 2008]
The SOL newsletter for March 2008 is available from SGN.
[Mar 11, 2008]
100,000 fosmid ends were sequenced by the Sanger Centre, UK, and added to the SGN clone database (library SL_F).
[Mar 4, 2008]
Eight new populations, comprising 1130 individuals, with descriptions, trait data, genotypes, and 1800 images, were kindly submitted by Esther van der Knaap.
[Mar 4, 2008]
The SOL newsletter for November 2007 is available. [Nov 20, 2007]
Syngenta released a new version of the BAC mapping file to the international tomato genome sequencing community (see FTP site).
[Nov 8, 2007]
Prof Sanwen Huang announced at the 4th SOL conference in Jeju, Korea, that his group at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences will sequence chromosome 11 of tomato.
[Sept 17, 2007]
The Accessioned Golden Path map, showing the projected locations of BACs in the tiling path is available. [Sept 4, 2007]
The SOL newsletter for July 2007 is available. [July 15, 2007]
SGN has several open positions for postdocs, programmers and a system administrator. Contact SGN for more information. [June 13, 2007]
Several new tomato maps, such as the IL map, a Contig map, as well as an improved Physical map were added to SGN. [June 13, 2007]
The Japanese SOL project (JSOL) contributed a special issue related to progress on tomato and Solanaceae genomics in the official journal of the Japanese Society of Plant Cell and Molecular Biology. [May 14, 2007]
The SOL newsletter for May 2007 is available. [May 7, 2007]
An new advanced BLAST interface is available on SGN with better control of BLAST parameters and submission of multi-fasta files. [May 2, 2007]
Improved versions of the SGN Alignment Analyzer and the SGN Tree Browser released. [April 4, 2007]
New, detailed instructions for validation of BACs on ILs [ppt] are available, and the Tomato Sequencing guidelines [google doc] have been updated with new finishing guidelines. [March 29, 2007]
An SSR-based map of tobacco, developed and kindly provided by G. Bindler, P. Donini and co-workers has been added to SGN. [March 28, 2007]
Syngenta mapped 17,000 BACs to ILs and is making the data available to the Tomato Sequencing project on SGN. [Feb 28, 2007]
The SOL newsletter for March 2007 is available. [March 15, 2007]
Many thanks to everybody for their support on
the proposal [pdf] to sequence Solanum pennellii. [Mar 11, 2007]
A letter of intent has been approved by JGI for full proposal submission. Please support the project with a support letter [Draft support letter]. [Feb 7, 2007]
The SOL newsletter for January 2007 is available. [Jan 10, 2007]
1000 potato loci, including Gene Ontology and Plant Ontology annotations, have been added, complementing the 1600 tomato loci already in the SGN database. [Jan 9, 2007]
A new database of populations, individuals, phenotypes and genotypes is available on SGN, including 8000 images. [Jan 9, 2007]
An SGN mirror site has been installed at the Colombian National Coffee Research Center in Chinchina, Colombia. [Dec 5, 2006]
The SOL Newsletter for Nov 2006 is available [Nov 9, 2006].
A new SGN unigene build for tomato, Solanum lycopersicum is available. [Oct 1, 2006]
The website for the European SOL project (EU-SOL) is now on-line [Sept 19, 2006].
The SOL Newsletter for Sept 2006 is available [Sept 13, 2006].
A BAC extension tool for the tomato sequencing project is available from the University of Padua [July 30, 2006].
A database of Solanaceae genetic loci that can be updated by community members like you [July 19, 2006].
A preliminary version of the SolCyc biochemical pathway databases is available [July 19, 2006]
The June 2006 edition of the SOL Newsletter is available [June 2, 2006]
The April 2006 edition of the SOL Newsletter is available.
The tomato plastid sequence has been completed by the EU-funded Plastomics Consortium [Mar 9, 2006]
A web portal for the Latin American SOL initiative (Lat-SOL) has been launched [Feb 21, 2006]
The SOL Newsletter for February 2006 is now available. [Feb 14, 2006]
Coffee ESTs are now available on SGN [Nov 7, 2005]
The SOL Newsletter for November is now available [Nov 7, 2005]
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