Bioinformatics and cereal genome databases: A case study in rice

Advances of technology and the speed of genetic researches have enhanced genetic data in different fields like nucleotides and amino acids sequences, genes and proteins functions, mutants and their phenotypes, markers and etc. In addition to its volume, genetic information is complex and has subtle differences in the experimental manners which can influence on the quality and interpretation of the data. Thus it is crucial to describe and categorize the data related to genes and its phenotype information in the way that rapid and easy comparison of them be available. The use of genetic databases can help researchers to complete and update their researches and it awards them of the latest acquisitions of the science. Application of genetic databases in research for cereal is prevalent in recent years. This article will review databases which offer comprehensive information of rice genome and then one of the most usage cereal databases will be introduced.