Araport Project Overview Leaflet (published Jun 23, 2016).

1. Araport is an initiative funded by the NSF and the BBSRC,
and was established after a series of community
workshops [1] to give Arabidopsis and plant scientists
direct access to a new generation web-based data
platform. Users can browse and analyze a wide array of
data already available through Araport, and publish their
own data modules for community sharing and building
analysis workflows. The Araport data platform consists of
three major components: ThaleMine, JBrowse, and
Science Apps [2, 3]. Find out more at,
https://www.araport.org.
Araport has completed comprehensive updates to both
structural and functional annotation of the Col-0
genome as Araport11that has been officially released by
NCBI as of June 2016. Araport11 contains revisions to
gene structures and isoforms derived from 113 publicly
available RNA-seq datasets, as well as non-coding
genes, upstream ORFs, pseudogenes, along with
annotation contributions from NCBI, UniProt, and
individual research groups. The Araport11 data release
is available through ThaleMine, JBrowse, Science Apps,
and FTP download. Find out more at,
https://www.araport.org/data/araport11.
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ThaleMine is based on the popular model organism data
warehouse GMOD InterMine. ThaleMine currently
houses a widearray of Arabidopsis genomic information
including RNA-seq expression (NCBI SRA), array
expression (BAR), coexpression (ATTED), orthologs
(Phytozome, Panther), protein interactions (IntAct,
BioGrid), pathways (KEGG), publications (NCBI, UniProt),
etc. Germplasm and phenotypes (ABRC/TAIR) havealso
been integrated into the Gene Report page. Users can
browse Gene Reports, analyze gene lists for feature
enrichment, run data queries (prebuilt or customized),
export data tables, and save/share. gene lists and data
queries. Find out more at
https://apps.araport.org/thalemine.
The GMOD JBrowse is a next generation fast response
genome browser. The Araport JBrowse hosts a
collection of over 100 data tracks of which some data
sources are accessed in real-time. Data tracks include
the latest Araport11 gene structure updates and over
100 RNA-seq datasets used in the Araport genome
reannotation effort, TDNA-seq (Ecker lab), population
variants (1001 Genomes Project), epigenetic marks
(EPIC-CoGe), chromatin states (Gutierrez lab), sequence
conservation (VISTA) plots (Phytozome), and more. In
addition to the large collection of data tracks from which
to choose, users can also upload and view their own
sequence alignments (e.g. BAM files) or genomic
features (e.g. GFF files) for side-by-side comparison with
the reference genome annotation. New mechanisms for
community users to easily publish persistent data tracks
for public sharing are being developed. Find out more
at, https://apps.araport.org/jbrowse.
Categories TAIR10 Araport11
(A) Protein-coding gene
Number of loci 27,416 27,655
Number of transcripts 35,386 48,359
Number of loci with >=2 splice variants 5,804 (18%) 10,696 (39%)
(B) Noncoding gene
Long intergenic noncoding RNA (lincRNA) 36 2,444
Natural antisense transcript (NAT) 223 1,115
MicroRNA (miRNA) 177 325
Small nucleolar RNA (snoRNA) 71 287
Small nuclear RNA (snRNA) 13 82
tRNA 689 689
rRNA 15 15
Other RNA 394 221
(C) Genomic feature
Small RNA 35,846
Novel transcribed region 508
Upstream open reading frame 58 84
Obsolete loci with short coding sequence 388
The Arabidopsis Information Portal
Araport11 Genome Annotation
ThaleMine Data Warehouse
JBrowse Genome Browser

2. A growing collection of modules providing data or
analysis capabilities will serve as building blocks for
creating discovery workflows. Themodules will be built
and shared by the research community for
interoperability and reuse. Users can review the currently
available set of Science Apps, and provide comments
and feedback on what modules they would like to see or
contribute. More at,
https://www.araport.org/apps/catalog.
Araport is an open source science resource and
maintains an active GitHub repository. The community
is not only invited to contribute and expand
functionalities, but is also empowered to do so. Araport
developers exploit cutting edge technologies such as
CyVerse/iPlant, Agave, Adama, git, jQuery, Bootstrap,
Docker, and Swagger. Araport hosts developer
workshops, and hack-a-thons to help the community
enrich and exploit this resource. Find out more at,
https://www.araport.org/devzone.
[1] International Arabidopsis Informatics Consortium.
(2012). Taking the next step: building an Arabidopsis
information portal. The Plant Cell, 24(6), 2248-2256.
PMID: 22751211
[2] Krishnakumar et al. (2014). Araport: the Arabidopsis
Information Portal. Nucl. Acids Res., 43(D1), D1003-
D1009. PMID: 25414324
[3] Hanlon et al. (2015). Araport: an application platform
for data discovery. Concurrency Computat.: Pract.Exper.,
doi: 10.1002/cpe.3542.
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