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The SOL Genomics Network (SGN) is a Clade Oriented Database (COD) containing
genomic, genetic, phenotypic and taxonomic information for plant genomes.  SGN
originally concentrated on the Euasterid clade, including the families
including the families <a href="/about/about_solanaceae.pl">Solanaceae</a>
(e.g. tomato, potato, eggplant, pepper and petunia) and Rubiaceae
(<a href="/content/coffee.pl">coffee</a>), but since our tools are not specific to
these genomes, we are expanding our scope.  If you are interested in using SGN
to explore one of the many new plant genomes being sequenced, please contact
us!  <br/>

Genomic information is presented in a comparative format and tied to other
important plant model species such as Arabidopsis. SGN is also one of the
bioinformatics centers involved in tomato genome sequencing.<br />

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SGN is a <b>community curated</b> database. This means that <b>you</b> can contribute annotations to genes and phenotypes by becoming a <a href="/phenome/">locus editor</a>. You can also upload, analyze and share your <a href="/content/map_submissions.pl">map</a> and <a href="/qtl/">QTL data</a>. Contributions by members of the community like you help keep the information in the database up to date and correct.
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<li><div class="subheading"><a class="creativitylinks" href="/about/index.pl">About SGN </a></div></li>
<li><div class="subheading"><a class="creativitylinks" href="/content/sgn_data.pl">Species in the SGN database</a></div></li>
<li><div class="subheading"><a class="creativitylinks" href="/about/about_solanaceae.pl">What are Solanaceae?</a></div></li>
<li><div class="subheading"><a class="creativitylinks" href="/solanaceae-project/index.pl">Why are the Solanaceae being studied?</a></div></li>
<li><div class="subheading"><a class="creativitylinks" href="/genomes/Solanum_lycopersicum/">The tomato genome sequencing project</a></div></li>
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<div class="boxheading">Citing SGN</div>
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If SGN is useful in your research, please cite SGN in your publications using the following reference:
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Bombarely A, Menda N, Tecle IY, Buels RM, Strickler S, Fischer-York T, Pujar A, Leto J, Gosselin J, Mueller LA. <b>The Sol Genomics Network (solgenomics.net): growing tomatoes using Perl.</b> (2011) Nucleic Acids Res. Volume 39 (Database issue):D1149-55. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20935049">PubMed</a>.
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<div class="boxheading">SGN code and database</div>
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 The SGN code and database are developed as an open source project, and is based on database schemas developed by the <a href="http://gmod.org/" target="_new" >GMOD project</a> and SGN-specific extensions. 
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Contributions to the codebase are welcome.  All SGN code is available from <a href="http://github.com/solgenomics/" target="_new" >http://github.com/solgenomics</a>.
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