Coming Soon

August 2012

• SignalP tool available for signal peptide prediction.
• Download data option on Multiple Gene/Metabolite Search page added.
• Data integration inference engine and module draft tools development.

June 2012

• Breeder Toolkit for pedigree and traits linking.
• Comparison against G. soja.
• Pathway viewers showing all genes and metabolites on every pathway.
• 52 new transcriptomics conditions data to become available for private access.

Latest Developments

April 2012

• Demo video.

February 2012

• Chromosome Visualizer tool added for integration of QTL, Traits, SNPs and Insertion/Deletion data for breeders.
• GWAS SNPs, Insertion and Deletion data added for 31 soybean genotypes from BGI to Chromosome Visualizer and SNPs Search.
• G. Soja SNPs, Invertion and Deletion data added to Chromosome Visualizer and SNPs Search.

January 2012

• SoyKB Manuscript published in BMC Genomics and added to Citations.
  Trupti Joshi, Kapil Patil, Michael R. Fitzpatrick, Levi D. Franklin, Qiuming Yao, Zheng Wang, Marc Libault, Laurent Brechenmacher, Babu Valliyodan, Xiaolei Wu, Jianlin Cheng, Gary Stacey, Henry Nguyen and Dong Xu. Soybean Knowledge Base (SoyKB): A Web Resource for Soybean Translational Genomics. BMC Genomics 2012, 13(Suppl 1):S15.

December 2011

• Homeologous gene regions information.

October 2011

• Blast sequence similarity search tool added.
• Motif sampler tool added for motif prediction and allows creating web logo.
• Extract genome sequence using chr# and start and end coordinates.
• miRNA mapped to mirBASE database and miRNA family information available.

September 2011

• Mirror site setup.
• Protein 3D structure PDB files links added for download on 3D structure viewer.
• Download data now allows all 3 domain information option.

July 2011

• Password forgot/reset feature added.
• Microarray data submission for MAS5 format.
• Alternative splice variant information added on Gene card page.
• Overlapping gene information added to the SNP card page.
• Overlapping SNP information added to the gene card page.
• Data sources information page added under Information.

Apr 2011

• Website redesigned.
• Search by chr# and coordinates added for Gene searches.
• Facebook link added.
• Correlation coefficient calculations and pie chart analysis added for multiple gene searches.
• Quick search feature added for easy access on Home page.

Mar 2011

• Experiment browser feature to allow users to access data for all genes based on an experiment types and dataset.
• Feature to download sequences and experimental datasets for a list of genes.
• Feature to allow users to submit gene family, functional annotation and experimental data information to be added to SoyKB.
• New tracks for experimental data to be added to Genome Browser.
• Browser issues fixing.
• Website redesign.
• Breeder Toolbox for pedigree and traits linking.

Jan 2011

• SoyKB to be linked to and from other soybean databases such as SoyBase, to allow users seamless navigation between the websites.
• 2 SNP datasets to be added for private access.
• Multiple gene searches for cross comparison across a set of genes.

Oct 2010

• EST, Full length cDNA and 5’ RATE sequence based evidence datasets added for private access.
• Transcriptomics dataset with 14 conditions added for public access.
• Proteomics dataset with 5 conditions coming soon for public access.
• Gene pathway viewer added to SoyKB.
• Soybean gene family information added to SoyKB and available for complete gene family searches.
• Logo designed for SoyKB.

Sep 2010

• Microarray dataset with 25 tissue conditions and 99 stress conditions added for public access.
• New subgraph graphical viewing functiopnality developed to allow users to focus on related experimental conditions in microarray, transcriptomics and proteomics datasets.
• Protein 3D structure viewer added.

Aug 2010

• Currently development to integrate experimental data for EST Evidence, Microarray and Proteomics is in progress.
• Proteomics dataset with 4 conditions (Roots Control , Roots Disease , Hair Control , Hair Disease ) and 156 replications added for private access.

June 2010

• Transcriptomics dataset with 14 conditions added for private access.
• Microarray dataset with 7 conditions including leaf and root tissues and time points added for private access.
• Dynamic search capacity for literature and reference extraction added.

Apr 2010

• SoyKB.org domain registered and linked to the final website.
• Metabolite card information pages incorporated along with the metabolite pathway viewer tool.

March 2010

• Gene cards information pages setup with gene model, sequence and functional details.
• miRNA card information pages now available.

Feb 2010

• Initial SoyKB website established.

Jan 2010

• SoyKB website concept and architecture drafted.