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Welcome to the Legume Information System

The mission of the Legume Information System is to improve the productivity of crop breeders and basic researchers in Fabaceae by providing expertise and up-to-date information bridging the reference species. To serve the community better, the site is currently under major redevelopment. Planned efforts include substantial improvements such as new data-oriented web services (e.g., RESTful, DAS, and BioMart-based) and the creation of a new kind of clade-focused search engine we call Leggle.

The usefulness of the Legume Information System depends upon your suggestions for improvement, feedback, and questions. Contact the team at lis_feedback@ncgr.org.

March 2010

Of special interest

Van de Velde W, Zehirov G, Szatmari A, Debreczeny M, Ishihara H, Kevei Z, Farkas A, Mikulass K, Nagy A, Tiricz H, Satiat-JeunemaƮtre B, Alunni B, Bourge M, Kucho K, Abe M, Kereszt A, Maroti G, Uchiumi T, Kondorosi E, Mergaert P. (2010) Plant peptides govern terminal differentiation of bacteria in symbiosis. Science. Feb 26.

Wang D, Griffitts J, Starker C, Fedorova E, Limpens E, Ivanov S, Bisseling T, Long S. (2010) A nodule-specific protein secretory pathway required for nitrogen-fixing symbiosis. Science. Feb 26.

LIS web services for bioinformatics groups

We've begun working on a suite of Blast web services, primarily to facilitate API-based sequence searches across the Glycine max, Lotus japonicus, and Medicago truncatula references. Comments from bioinformatics and database groups are especially welcome. For more information contact us at lis_feedback@ncgr.org.