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Tandem gene duplication is an important
mechanism in genome evolution, which brings the amplification of
gene families and enhance environmental adaptation of organism.
Until now, more than 300 genome sequences are released and available
in community. But comprehensive database platforms for studying
tandem gene duplication within plant kingdom are still lacking.
Here, we developed an integrated database, PlantTandemDups, for
tandem gene duplication in plant genomes, which includes a database
with 720,991 tandemly duplicated genes distributed in 301,515 tandem
gene arrays from 192 plant genomes, and a web service, PTGDweb, for
identifying tandemly duplicated genes in plant genome.
PlantTandemDups embedded Browse, Search and BLAST
functions, which can help users to get interested information of
tandem gene duplication in target plant genomes. Except, users can
employ PTGDweb to investigate tandem gene duplication or identify
tandemly duplicated genes in target genomic regions or chromosomes
that not collected in PlantTandemDups, just supplying BLAST result
and GFF files. All data for tandem gene duplication in this database
are freely available and will be updated regularly with new
available plant genomes.
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