Abstract
It is very laborious for each wet researcher to classify proteins that share similar biological functions registered in public databases in silico. To get hints to elucidate the biological function of annotated proteins, we have developed and opened a genome-wide database, termed SALAD database, based on similarity clustering and distribution diagrams of evolutionarily conserved peptide motifs found in seven plant species, rice, sorghum, Arabidopsis thaliana, Physcomitrella patens, green alga, red alga, and yeast. Using this database we can compare any annotations of your interest and discuss on their evolutional relationships efficiently and quickly. In addition, to order to compare specific gene expression of microarray data for paralogous (or related) genes, we integrated the LM microarray data on rice pollen development into our clustering in the SALAD database (termed SALAD on ARRAYs). This service is now available for public microarray-data sets. We will introduce these topics on SALAD database.
