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. 2016 Jan 4;44(D1):D1167-71.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkv1054. Epub 2015 Oct 17.

FLOR-ID: an interactive database of flowering-time gene networks in Arabidopsis thaliana

Frédéric Bouché  1 , Guillaume Lobet  1 , Pierre Tocquin  1 , Claire Périlleux  2
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FLOR-ID: an interactive database of flowering-time gene networks in Arabidopsis thaliana

Frédéric Bouché et al. Nucleic Acids Res. .

Abstract

Flowering is a hot topic in Plant Biology and important progress has been made in Arabidopsis thaliana toward unraveling the genetic networks involved. The increasing complexity and the explosion of literature however require development of new tools for information management and update. We therefore created an evolutive and interactive database of flowering time genes, named FLOR-ID (Flowering-Interactive Database), which is freely accessible at http://www.flor-id.org. The hand-curated database contains information on 306 genes and links to 1595 publications gathering the work of >4500 authors. Gene/protein functions and interactions within the flowering pathways were inferred from the analysis of related publications, included in the database and translated into interactive manually drawn snapshots.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Simplified representation of the relational structure of the FLOR-ID database.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Gene-details window displayed in FLOR-ID. (A) Users can select any gene from the database (here FLOWERING LOCUS T) and find information displayed either in an HTML or XML format (for automated data retrieval). (B) Gene information, with links to TAIR, UniProt and Nowomics. (C) Relevant publications, with direct links to full-length articles. (D) FLOR-ID schemes providing network information for the gene. (E) Protein function. (F) Known flowering-time phenotype(s) of the corresponding mutant(s), associated with the original publication(s). (G) Known interactors, based on stated publications. (H) Graphical representation of the gene interaction network.
Figure 3.
Figure 3.
Interactive snapshots of FLOR-ID. (A) SVG scheme in which each element (gene, line) is clickable. (B) Database connected to the scheme. (C) Web panel opened after clicking on an element of the scheme. Information is retrieved from the database and displayed in a human-reading form.
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