Table 1.

Some on-line resources for soybean research. More soybean-specific resources are listed first, and broader plant- or clade databases or resources are listed below

SoyBase	http://soybase.org Trait (QTL) and marker data; transposon database; metabolic pathways; genome browser with expression and comparative data; full chromosome-scale browser views, and synteny data with comparisons to soy duplications and other legume genomes.
Legumebase	http://www.legumebase.brc.miyazaki-u.ac.jp Extensive information about legume lines (cultivated, plant introduction, wild, mutants) access to seed stocks; clones for full-length cDNAs; RIL populations
Soybean knowledge base, soykb	http://soykb.org/ Soybean microarray, transcrioptomic, proteomic, pathway, phenotype data.
Soybean Functional Genomics Database, SFGD	http://bioinformatics.cau.edu.cn/SFGD/ Soybean gene coexpression networks
SoyDB	http://casp.rnet.missouri.edu/soydb/ Transcription factors for soybean, including predicted structural characteristics, protein family characteristics.
Phytozome	http://phytozome.net Bulk datasets; genome browser with close views (up to 500 kbp); numerous gene-related browser tracks; plant gene families
Legume Information System, LIS	http://comparative-legumes.org Multi-sequence queries against various legume databases; genome browsers for Medicago and Lotus integrated with SoyBase soybean browser; comparative and synteny data; legume gene families; whole-genome views of synteny and multi-sequence queries.
Legume Integrative Platform, LegumeIP	http://plantgrn.noble.org/LegumeIP/ Expression data (from microarrays and short-read sequences) from soybean and other legumes. Search, synteny comparisons, gene families.
Plant Genome Duplication Database, PGDD	http://chibba.agtec.uga.edu/duplication/ Display of corresponding regions between soybean genes and regions and other plant genomes