GabiPD: Gabi Primary Database - a plant integrative ‘omics’ database in GABI-FUTURE

AbstractGabiPD ("http://gabi.rzpd.de":http://gabi.rzpd.de) was established within GABI-I and further developed in GABI-II and constitutes a repository and analysis platform for a wide array of heterogeneous data arising from high throughput experiments developed by members of the GABI/WPG community. Currently, data from different fronts (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics) are incorporated in GabiPD, representing 14 different biological species. Last year GabiPD moved to the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology. In the progressing GABI-FUTURE phase, the GabiPD team has been creating a more integrative data view, expanding the tools and information provided by our well-known GreenCards. Links to different species-specific (Arabidopsis thaliana so far) GABI-resources (e.g., Aramemnon, GABI-KAT) as well as external resources (e.g., ProMEX) are being added or updated. All data types (e.g., protein spots, clones) in GabiPD are pointing to the central Gene’s GreenCard, where gene information is retrieved from genome annotation projects or large UniGene sets provided by NCBI. Moreover, the GabiPD team will perform new types of data computations, like analysis of conserved domains in protein sequences.