Arabidopsis Community Collaborations & Resources

The ABRC was established in 1991, in the US, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in response to community needs as a central repository for Arabidopsis resources. The Center is associated with the Center for Applied Plant Sciences (CAPS) and is located at The Ohio State University. Their mission is to acquire, propagate and maintain resources using best practices and to make them available to researchers and educators around the world. ABRC serves 9,000 labs in 80 countries around the world. Its activities are coordinated with those of the Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre (NASC). The centers have a distribution agreement: ABRC distributes to Americas and NASC distributes to Europe. Labs in other locations may establish their primary affiliation with either.

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The Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre (NASC), was established in the UK in 1991, is funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the University of Nottingham, and provides seed and information resources to the research community. The Stock Centre is Directed by Sean May and managed by Marcos Castellanos-Uribe; it’s activities are coordinated with those of the Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center, (ABRC) based at Ohio State University, USA. This facilitates a unified and efficient service for the research community. The stock centres have a distribution agreement. NASC distributes to Europe and ABRC distributes to America. Laboratories in other locations may establish their primary affiliation with either centre.

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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) collects information and maintains a database of genetic and molecular biology data for Arabidopsis thaliana, a widely used model plant. TAIR is managed by the nonprofit Phoenix Bioinformatics Corporation and is supported through institutional, lab and personal subscriptions. Prior funding was provided by the National Science Foundation. Please see the TAIR subscription page for information on how to subscribe for full access to all TAIR pages. The data in TAIR can be searched, viewed using their GBrowse or interactive SeqViewer genome browsers, and analyzed with their tools. Their datasets can also be downloaded for your convenience. In addition, pages on news, information on the Arabidopsis Genome Initiative (AGI), Arabidopsis lab protocols, and useful links are provided.

These pages include a curated set of bioinformatics and data resources that have been compiled by members of the International Arabidopsis Informatics Consortium (IAIC) and curators at TAIR.  This is not a comprehensive list; if you know of a resource that you think should be included, please contact TAIR by clicking on the link/button below.

The Multinational Arabidopsis Steering Committee (MASC) has its origin in the 1990s when scientists from the United States, Europe, Japan and Australia formed an ad hoc committee to promote large-scale studies in Arabidopsis thaliana. One of the main aims of the committee was and still is to strengthen international collaboration and coordination, to reduce redundancy and to help in guiding the community in making progress on projects that can be successful only by combined international efforts. MASC is composed of representatives from each country with major efforts in Arabidopsis research or coalition of countries with smaller programs. It is open to any country interested in participating. Selection of MASC representatives is left to the discretion of each country.

RIKEN BRC-Experimental Plant Division (Japan) distributes bio-resources (seeds, DNA, cells), for Arabidopsis. They have various accessions, transposon-tagged lines, T-DNA lines, and DNA and cell culture resources. The stocks require an MTA to be accessed and the website provides an example of what the MTA looks like.

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