AUTHOR=Li Hao , Meng Fanrui , Guo Chunce , Wang Yingxiang , Xie Xiaojing , Zhu Tiansheng , Zhou Shuigeng , Ma Hong , Shan Hongyan , Kong Hongzhi 

TITLE=MeioBase: a comprehensive database for meiosis

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Plant Science

VOLUME=5

YEAR=2014

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2014.00728

DOI=10.3389/fpls.2014.00728

ISSN=1664-462X

ABSTRACT=<p>Meiosis is a special type of cell division process necessary for the sexual reproduction of all eukaryotes. The ever expanding meiosis research calls for an effective and specialized database that is not readily available yet. To fill this gap, we have developed a knowledge database MeioBase (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://meiosis.ibcas.ac.cn" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">http://meiosis.ibcas.ac.cn</ext-link>), which is comprised of two core parts, <italic>Resources</italic> and <italic>Tools</italic>. In the <italic>Resources</italic> part, a wealth of meiosis data collected by curation and manual review from published literatures and biological databases are integrated and organized into various sections, such as <italic>Cytology, Pathway, Species, Interaction</italic>, and <italic>Expression</italic>. In the <italic>Tools</italic> part, some useful tools have been integrated into MeioBase, such as <italic>Search, Download, Blast, Comparison, My Favorites, Submission</italic>, and <italic>Advice</italic>. With a simplified and efficient web interface, users are able to search against the database with gene model IDs or keywords, and batch download the data for local investigation. We believe that MeioBase can greatly facilitate the researches related to meiosis.</p>