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. 2024 Feb 2;5(1):94–106. doi: 10.1007/s42994-023-00134-4

Table 1.

Database resources of plants in the CNCB-NGDC

Type Database Web link Functionality Data volume
Repositories Genome Sequence Archive (GSA) https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/gsa Data repository for collecting, archiving, managing and sharing raw sequence data generated from different platforms

1850 plant species

154,749 experiments

173,258 runs

 ~ 4500 TB volume

Genome Warehouse (GWH) https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/gwh Centralized resource housing genome-scale data for a wide range of species and delivering a series of web services for genome data submission, storage, release and sharing

1423 plant species

10,594 assemblies

GenBase https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/genbase Accepts user submissions (mRNA, genomic DNAs, ncRNA, or small genomes such as organelles, viruses, plasmids, phages from any organism) and integrates data from INSDC

1085 proteins sequences

1024 nucleotide sequences

Chloroplast Genome Information Resource (CGIR) https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/cgir Provides curated resource of chloroplast genome information, dedicating to the integration, annotation and standardization of chloroplast genomes, genes, simple sequence repeats (SSR), and DNA signature sequences (DSS)

16,435 plant species

5918 featured plants

29,069 genomes

Genome Variation Map (GVM) https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/gvm Public repository of genome variations, providing single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and small insertions & deletions (InDels) presentation and variome data archiving

30 plant species

72 projects

34,643 samples

Gene Expression Nebulas (GEN) https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/gen Provide data portal of transcriptomic profiles under various conditions derived entirely from bulk and single-cell RNA-Seq data analysis in multiple species

10 plant species

1867 samples

22,215 single-cells

Methylation Bank (MethBank) https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/methbank Banks of integrated DNA methylomes across a variety of species. Providing whole genome single-base methylome and manually curate knowledge of both featured differentially methylated genes

7 plant species

236 tissues/cell lines

1449 single-base resolution methylomes

Plant pan-genome (PlantPan) https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/plantpan Encompasses pan-genome analysis results from multiple plant species, provides gene-based and graph-based pan-genome for each species, along with detailed gene functions, 13 types of genomic variations, and genome synteny

11 plant species

195 genomes

9,127,208 genes

413,000,124 genomic variations

3,345,098 genome synteny

Open Plant Image Archive (OPIA) https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/opia An archive database of plant images and related phenotypic data from high-throughput phenotyping platforms for a diversity of species

11 plant species

56 datasets

566,225 images

56 i-traits

Knowledge databases GWAS Atlas https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/gwas/ Manually curated resource of genome-wide genotype-phenotype (G2P) associations for a wide range of species

10 plant species

269,138 association

630 publications

Plant Editosome Database (PED) https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/ped Provides RNA editing factors, RNA editing events of targeted organelle genes, interactions between editing factors and events in multiple species, biological functional effects of editing factors in regulating plant phenotypes and the corresponding experimental detailed information

1618 plant species

144 editing factors

203 edited genes

25,164 editing evens

137 publications

Internal Control Genes (ICG) https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/icg Provides a comprehensive collection of high-quality experimentally verified internal control genes and their application scenarios for both model and non-model organisms

278 plant species

340 studies

1216 genes

Leaf Senescence Database (LSD) https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/lsd/ Provides senescence associated genes, mutants, phenotypes and literature references

86 plant species

31,214 genes

1037 mutants

Species-specific resources Information Commons for Rice (IC4R) http://ic4r.org/ A curated database providing rice genome sequences, updating rice gene annotations and integrating multiple omics data through community-contributed modules

56,221 protein-coding genes

80,038 protein-coding transcripts

6259 long non-coding RNAs

4373 circular RNAs

1503 RNA-Seq datasets

Rice Expression Database (RED) http://expression.ic4r.org Provides gene expression profiles derived entirely from RNA-Seq data analysis on tissues spanning an entire range of rice growth stages and covering a wide variety of biotic and abiotic treatments

9 tissues

24 projects

284 experiments

SoyOmics https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/soyomics Provides a wide variety of soybean multi-omics data, encompassing assembled genomes, graph pan-genomes, resequencing data, phenotypic information from representative germplasms, transcriptomic and epigenomic data from different tissues, organs, and accessions, as well as knowledge of quantitative trait locus and genome-wide association study

Genome of 27 cultivars

variome of ~ 3000 soybean germplasms

transcriptome of 28 tissues

phenome of 115 traits

homology and synteny of 28 genomes

SorgSD https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/sorgsd Provides a wealth of sorghum-related information, including genome, variations, phenotypes, panicle images, online resources and critical references

289 sorghum accessions

39,547,621 variations

289 phenotypes

Tropical Crop Omics Database (TCOD) https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/tcod Provides genome sequences, gene function annotations, cross-species homology relationships, genome variations, gene expression and germplasm resource descriptions for 15 tropical crops

15 plant species

34 genome assemblies

1,255,044 genes

282,436,992 variants

88 expressions

13,381 cultivars