Citrus sinensis annotation project (CAP): a comprehensive database for sweet orange genome

PLoS One. 2014 Jan 28;9(1):e87723. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087723. eCollection 2014.

Abstract

Citrus is one of the most important and widely grown fruit crop with global production ranking firstly among all the fruit crops in the world. Sweet orange accounts for more than half of the Citrus production both in fresh fruit and processed juice. We have sequenced the draft genome of a double-haploid sweet orange (C. sinensis cv. Valencia), and constructed the Citrus sinensis annotation project (CAP) to store and visualize the sequenced genomic and transcriptome data. CAP provides GBrowse-based organization of sweet orange genomic data, which integrates ab initio gene prediction, EST, RNA-seq and RNA-paired end tag (RNA-PET) evidence-based gene annotation. Furthermore, we provide a user-friendly web interface to show the predicted protein-protein interactions (PPIs) and metabolic pathways in sweet orange. CAP provides comprehensive information beneficial to the researchers of sweet orange and other woody plants, which is freely available at http://citrus.hzau.edu.cn/.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Citrus sinensis / genetics*
  • Databases, Genetic*
  • Genome, Plant*
  • Internet
  • Metabolic Networks and Pathways
  • Molecular Sequence Annotation*
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Protein Interaction Maps

Grants and funding

The present study was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (2012AA10A304) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31271406 and 31222047). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.