Chickpea Gbrowse

The Chickpea genome contains 8 Chromosomes with ~740 million bases pairs (Mbp) and 28,269 genes. It is a challenge to visualise and explore such a huge quantity of data, especially for non-bioinformatics researchers. We are part of the Chickpea Consortium and we published the Chickpea genome in Nature Biotechnology in early 2014.

Currently, only the raw data of the Chickpea genome can be downloaded in NCBI, thus limiting the analysis to researchers with strong computing skills. Setting up a well-featured genome browser for the Chickpea genome is important for the plant research community, and especially beneficial to the Chickpea research community. The Chickpea browsing system will be the first Chickpea genome browser, and will attract the Chickpea research community to use it. Additionally, it will also benefit the plant research community, especially for genome comparative study.

Both the Kabuli and Desi genomes can be downloaded in full as well as being searchable through Gbrowse.

鹰嘴豆（Chickpea）基因组包含8条染色体，约7.4亿碱基对（Mbp），共计28269个基因。对如此海量的数据进行可视化呈现与探索分析是一项颇具挑战的工作，尤其对于非生物信息学领域的研究人员而言更是如此。我们隶属于鹰嘴豆研究联盟，并于2014年初在《自然·生物技术》（*Nature Biotechnology*）期刊上发表了鹰嘴豆基因组的相关研究成果。

目前仅可在NCBI（美国国家生物技术信息中心，National Center for Biotechnology Information）下载鹰嘴豆基因组的原始数据，这使得相关分析工作仅能向具备较强计算能力的研究人员开放。为鹰嘴豆基因组搭建一款功能完善的基因组浏览器，对于植物研究界而言至关重要，对鹰嘴豆研究领域更是裨益良多。本鹰嘴豆浏览系统将是全球首款鹰嘴豆基因组浏览器，有望吸引全球鹰嘴豆研究群体广泛使用。此外，该系统还将为植物研究界提供助力，尤其在基因组比较研究领域具备重要应用价值。

卡布里型（Kabuli）与迪西型（Desi）鹰嘴豆基因组均可完整下载，同时也可通过Gbrowse（通用基因组浏览器）进行检索。