About AgBase
AgBase is a curated, open-source, Web-accessible resource for functional analysis of agricultural plant and animal gene products. Our long-term goal is to serve the needs of the agricultural research communities by facilitating post-genome biology for agriculture researchers and for those researchers primarily using agricultural species as biomedical models.

We use controlled vocabularies developed by the Gene Ontology Consortium to describe molecular function, biological process, and cellular component for genes and gene products in agricultural species.

AgBase will also accept annotations from any interested party in the research communities. AgBase develops freely available tools for functional analysis, including tools for using GO. We appreciate any and all questions, comments, and suggestions. Please send us your ideas about how to make AgBase more useful for you.

Acknowledgements

  
AgBase acknowledges the following groups for their help and support: The GO Consortium, especially DictyBase for providing the database schema and for technical assistance with implementation, MGI for providing training and continued support with manual curation issues and GOA for allowing us access to their tools and for their continued help, support and patience. AgBase has received financial support from:
  • Mississippi State University
    • Office of Research
    • Division of Agriculture and Forestry
    • College of Veterinary Medicine
    • Bagley College of Engineering
    • Life Sciences and Biotechnology Institute
  • United States Department of Agriculture
  • National Science Foundation

Senior Personnel
Dr. Susan Bridges Dr. Shane Burgess Dr. Dawn Luthe
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Associate Professor of Veterinary Medicine Professor of Plant Stress Biology at Pennsylvania State University
bridges@cse.msstate.edu burgess@cvm.msstate.edu dsl14@psu.edu

AgBase Biocurator

AgBase Administrator

AgBase Programmer

AgBase Biocurator

AgBase Biocurator
Dr.Fiona McCarthy
Research Assistant Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine		 Nan Wang
Research Associate I, Computer Sicence and Engineering		 Bryce Magee
Research Associate I, Computer Sicence and Engineering		 Teresia Buza
Research Associate I, College of Veterinary Medicine		 Divyaswetha Peddinti
Research Associate I, College of Veterinary Medicine
fmccarthy@cvm.msstate.edu nw43@cse.msstate.edu magee@cse.msstate.edu tbuza@cvm.msstate.edu dpeddinti@cvm.msstate.edu

Bioinformatics's Lab

Dr. Burgess's Lab