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Welcome to GMOD

Popular GMOD Tools
Genome Browsing and Editing
The Apollo Genome Annotation Editor [screenshot]
The GBrowse Genome Annotation Viewer [screenshot] [demo]
Comparative Genetic and Sequence Maps
The CMap comparative genetic map viewer [screenshot]
The Sybil comparative genome viewer [screenshots]
The SynBrowse genome synteny viewer [demo]
Database Tools
The BioMart genome data mining system [overview]
Biological Pathways
The Pathway Tools biochemical pathways suite [demo]
Infrastructure
The Chado modular biological database schema
The GMODWeb biological database website
Modware: Middleware for Chado


GMOD is the Generic Model Organism Database Toolkit, a collection of software tools for creating and managing genome-scale biological databases. You can use it to create a small laboratory database of genome annotations, or a large web-accessible community database. GMOD tools are in use at FlyBase, WormBase, SGD, BeeBase and many other large and small community databases.

How do I Get Started?

Visit the projects described in the box to the right, or visit GMOD Components for a comprehensive list of all GMOD tools.

How do I Get Support?

We provide support via mailing lists, a set of FAQs, and a Help Desk.

How do I Get Involved?

See the GMOD Project Page for new projects in need of ideas and developers. Or join one of the GMOD Mailing Lists to get a feel for how the project is organized.

For information about the GMOD hackathon, see the Hackathon 2007 info page.

About the Project

The Generic Model Organism Database project is an open source project to develop a complete set of software for creating and administering an organism database, or MOD. Components of this project include genome visualization and editing tools, literature curation tools, a robust database schema, biological ontology tools, and a set of standard operating procedures. This project is funded by the NIH and the USDA Agricultural Research Service and National Science Foundation. Participation draws from members of several database projects including WormBase, FlyBase, Mouse Genome Informatics, Gramene, the Rat Genome Database, TAIR, EcoCyc, DictyBase, wFleaBase, NESCent, Saccharomyces Genome Database and BeeBase (See also MOD list).

Contributing Organizations

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