Plant Bioinformatics: Applications and Databases
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Genetics, Genomics and Biotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 24733
Special Issue Editors
Interests: crop bioinformatics; molecular breeding; rice
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the increase in large-scale omics data, e.g., genome re-sequencing, RNA-seq, small RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, and degradome seq, the big data era for plant molecular biology has already begun. However, the utilization of such omics data is limited, and data mining is still a challenge for plant biologists who have limited experiences in bioinformatics. Thus, it is critical to establish the applications, local or online, and databases for plant biologists to increase data mining efficiency from big omics data. Although many plant databases and web applications have been established in recent years, they are still limited in number and usually not updated regularly, compared to databases and applications for humans and animals. Further, with the development of artificial intelligence (AI), AI techniques such as machine learning have been applied in bioinformatics predictions in plants.
In this Special Issue, we encourage submissions regarding newly developed bioinformatics applications and databases in plants or reviews introducing and comparing existing applications or databases. Manuscript size is flexible, but at least two printed pages are required. Applications and databases should be freely accessible, and there is no login requirement.
Prof. Dr. Ji Huang
Prof. Dr. Yufeng Wu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bioinformatics
- application
- database
- omics data
- data mining
- machine learning
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