CerealsDB: A community resource for wheat genomics

CerealsDB（http：//www.cerealsdb.uk.net/）是访问量最大的小麦网站之一，每月有5，000多次独立访问。CerealsDB成功的原因很清楚;它以非专家可以访问和理解的形式向社区提供基于序列和单核苷酸多态性（SNP）的信息。CerealsDB是成功的，但要保持对用户的价值，它需要与社区的期望一起发展。此外，CerealsDB需要扩大其职权范围，包括与其他网站，如国际小麦倡议的进一步互动。这一发展是新的，因为在我们以前的工作中，我们专门为英国社区而不是全球小麦社区开发了工具。然而，尽管我们之前的工作重点是英国社区，但CerealsDB易于使用的风格已经使该网站成为国际公认的网站，其许多用户来自非英国组织。在进一步的发展中，CerealsDB将继续与英国用户合作开发基于序列和SNP的资源;然而，它还将扩大其视野，包括与国际网上资源的互动和利用小麦参考序列等基因组学资源。其职权范围的扩大将扩大CerealsDB的受众，并向社区提供更广泛的工具和数据集。

CerealsDB ( http://www.cerealsdb.uk.net/) is one of the most highly accessed wheat web sites with over 5,000 unique accesses per month.The reasons for CerealsDB's success are clear; it provides the community with sequence and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-based information in a form accessible to and understandable by non-experts.While CerealsDB is successful, to remain of value to its users, it needs to develop in conjunction with the community's expectations. In addition, CerealsDB needs to expand its remit to include further interaction with other web sites such as the internationally based Wheat Initiative. This development is new to this application as in our previous work we developed tools specifically for the UK community rather than the global wheat community. However, although our previous work did focus on the UK community, the easy to use style of CerealsDB has already resulted in the web site becoming international recognised, with many of its users being from non-UK organisations.In this further development, CerealsDB will continue work with UK users to develop sequence and SNP-based resources; however, it will also extend its horizons to include interactions with international web-based resources and the exploitation of genomics resources such as the wheat reference sequence. This extension to its remit will result in an expanded audience for CerealsDB and more extensive tools and datasets being made available to the community.