The team organizes on request one week-training courses on "Initiation to Bioinformatics" for researchers and technicians involved in crop improvement. In 2006, such a training course was organized in Madagascar.

Objectives of the session: The trainees learn how to use the most common bioinformatic tools to find, compare, and align sequences. They are given the basic sequence analysis principles to allow a critical analysis of the obtained results, and determine the best strategies to solve the most common problems. Practice on computer is a key point of the training strategy.

In 2006, the team was composed of 6 permanent bioinformaticians and one bioinformatician on long-term contract.

Recent Publications:

Ruiz M, Rouard M, Raboin LM, Lartaud M, Lagoda P, Courtois B (2004)
TropGENE-DB, a multi tropical crop information system.
Nucleic Acid Research 32:364-367

Droc G, Ruiz M, Larmande P, Pereira A, Piffanelli P, Morel JB, Dievart A, Courtois B, Guiderdoni E,  Périn C (2006)
OrygenesDB: A database for rice reverse genetics.
Nucleic Acid Research, 34:D736-D740

Piffanelli P, Lescot M, Ciampi AY, Ruiz M, Blanc G, Leebens-Mack J, da Silva FR, Santos CMR, D’Hont A, Garsmeur O, Ronning, Cheung F, Haas BJ, Althoff R, Arbogast T, Hine E, Pappas Jr GJ, Souza Jr MT, Miller RNG, Glaszmann JC,  Town. CD (2007)
Molecular insights into the Musa genome: syntenic relationships to rice and between Musa species.
Submitted

Terol J, Conesa A, Colmenero JM, Cercos M,  Tadeo F, Agusti J, Alos E, Andres F,  Soler G, Brumos J, Iglesias DJ, Gotz S, Legaz F, Argout X, Courtois B, Ollitrault P, Dossat C,  Wincker P, Morillon R, Talon M (2007)
Analyses of a wide citrus EST collection identify 13000 putative transcription units and provide a first insight into the citrus transcriptome.
BMC Genomics (in press)