Abstracts and Short Papers from Oral Presentations at the North American Pulse Improvement Association (NAPIA)

power of Drupal, a popular web Content Management System (CMS), with that of Chado, a community derived database schema for storage of genomic, genetic and other biological data. Each page of the web site has a header bar composed of various categories for easy navigation: 'Home', 'About', 'Community', 'Crops', 'Maps', 'Tools', 'Search', 'Contact', 'Calendar', 'Publications', 'SCRI' and a link to join the 'Mailing List'. The 'Home', 'About', 'Community', 'Contact', 'Calendar', 'Publications' and 'SCRI' pages are selfexplanatory and straight forward. The 'Crops', 'Maps', 'Tools' and 'Search' pages are described below. The 'Crops' page has a dropdown table of the currently available cool season food legume crops (pea, lentil and chickpea). For each crop, a unigene build for the publicly available ESTs along with the functional annotation data of the unigene set is available for users to browse. The functional annotation includes homologs in other model species, GO terms and KEGG pathway terms. The 'Crops' pages also have links to the genetic map data that can be viewed using the comparative map viewer, CMap, as well as links to NCBI and GRIN. The 'Tools' page provides SSR and BLAST servers, Medigaco GBrowse, Soybean GBrowse and Lotus GBrowse. The SSR server is an online tool that allows a user to upload sequences as a batch file, select the type of motifs they are interested in identifying and search the sequences for microsatellites. The results are returned by email for each SSR containing sequence. Sequences can be compared to the available datasets, such as the unigenes or the individual ESTs, using the BLAST server. The Genome Browsers are tools that allow the user to view the features of a genome such as predicted genes, markers and mapped transcripts. In the Cool Season Food Legume Genome Database, transcripts from pea, chickpea and lentil are mapped to regions/genes in the module legumes. This is useful for both function identification and fine mapping. The putative functions of transcribed genes can be assigned using various functional annotations. Functional annotation data of the EST unigenes can be browsed in web pages, downloaded in an excel file or queried using various categories in the EST/unigene 'Search' page. From the EST/unigene detail page, information on ESTs, gene ontology assignment, KEGG and InterProScan annotations along with homologs in other databases are available.