About RAP
The Rice Annotation Project (RAP) was conceptualized upon the completion of the rice genome sequencing in 2004 with the aim of providing the scientific community with an accurate and timely annotation of the rice genome sequence. One of the major activities of RAP is to hold jamboree-style annotation meetings on a regular basis to facilitate the manual curation of all gene structures and functions in rice. Also part of the overall objective is to facilitate a comprehensive analysis of the sequence based on the results of annotation and the construction of a public database.
What's new
| 05/27/2009 | A new track for RFLP and SSR markers was created. The data was placed in the downlaod page. |
| Pack-MULE data was updated, and Pack-MULE sequences without nested transposons are available at the download page. | |
| 05/01/2009 | New annotation of IRGSP build 5 is available on RAP-DB Alpha Version. RAP-DB Alpha also displays genome-wide comparisons between japonica rice and indica/Sorghum. Please note that RAP-DB Alpha is provisional, and will frequently be changed. |
| Gene family data were updated, and can be downloaded. | |
| 04/03/2009 | We added Pack-MULEs in the Transposable Elements track. The data set was provided by Drs. Hanada and Jiang. For details, see their paper published in Plant Cell. |
| 02/10/2009 | Gene family information is now available here! Descriptions of gene families were added to the detailed viewer. |
| We fixed some problems about O. rufipogon cDNAs that were accidentally missing in our dataset. | |
| 01/08/2009 | New tracks for indica & O. rufipogon FLcDNAs, and Sorghum genes were added in GBrowse. |
| 12/25/2008 | IRGSP genome build 5 has just been released. For details, click on here. A repeat-masked version is available from our download page. |