<p>This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</p> <p>PANZEA is the first public database for studying maize genomic diversity. It
was initiated as a repository of genomic diversity for an NSF Plant Genome
project on ‘Maize Evolutionary Genomics’. PANZEA is hosted at the Bioinformatics
Research Center, North Carolina State University, and is open to the public
(http://statgen.ncsu.edu/panzea). PANZEA is designed to capture the interrelationships
between germplasm, molecular diversity, phenotypic diversity and genome
structure. It has the ability to store, integrate and visualize DNA sequence, enzymatic,
SSR (simple sequence repeat) marker, germplasm and phenotypic data. The
relational data model is selected and implemented in Oracle. An automated DNA
sequence data submission tool has been created that allows project researchers to
remotely submit their DNA sequence data directly to PANZEA. On-line database
search forms and reports have been created to allow users to search or download
germplasm, DNA sequence, gene/locus data and much more, directly from the web.</p>
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Comp Funct Genomics. 2003 Apr; 4(2):246-249