New features have been added to the TAIR database including GO term enrichment tools, new locus page bands with gene family, tree viewer and plant homolog information, and over 16,000 genes now have new annotation data. The document provides details on the new GO term enrichment analysis tools, locus page bands showing gene families, tree viewers, and plant homologs. It also lists the new types and amounts of data added to TAIR in 2016, including gene names, summaries, GO and plant ontology annotations from over 1,400 research articles. Information is given on how and why to submit new data to TAIR to disseminate research results.

1. New Data and Features at TAIR
Eva Huala, Shabari Subramaniam
Phoenix Bioinformatics

2. New Data and Features at TAIR
• GO term
enrichment tool
• 3 New locus page
bands
– Gene families
– Tree viewer
– Plant homologs
• Over 16,000 genes
with new data

3. Gene Ontology Term Enrichment
Tools menu

4. Gene Ontology Term Enrichment
10 plant species to choose from

5. GO enrichment results
number of IDs mapped
fold enrichment, P valuedownload results

6. Gene families links
PANTHER tree viewer
List of plant homologs from PANTHER
3 New Bands

7. PANTHER Tree Viewer
Click on nodes to close/open
Gene of interest highlighted in blue
Drag slider to change tree scale

8. New data are added to TAIR weekly
2016 statistics:
• 600 new gene symbols and names from published articles
• 400 new and updated gene summaries
• New Gene Ontology and Plant Ontology annotations
– Total of 16,136 genes with new annotations
– 3,805 genes received 8,010 new annotations based on direct
experimental results
– Information extracted from 1,413 new research articles

9. Submitting data to TAIR
Why?
• Makes you and your work
more visible to others
• Helps disseminate results and
move science forward faster
When?
• At time of publication
What?
• Function, expression
pattern, interacting partner
Protein serine/threonine kinase activity
protein kinase activity
9405347
AT3G45780 PHOT1 Phototropin 1
In vitro assay
Where?
How?

10. Come by our booth!
• Help with data submission
• Help us redesign our locus page
• Give us feedback on new data or tools you’d like to see
• Get some swag
Acknowledgements
• TAIR has been stably supported by researchers and librarians for over 3
years – come ask me how that works.
• Thank you to all who support us through data submission, feedback and
subscriptions!!!!