Overview

Cucurbitaceae is an important botanical family, includes several economical cultivated plants, medicinal plants and etc. However, very limited number of database for Cucurbitaceae was released so far that limits the pacing of basic and applied research. We developed a web resource that providing a wide variety of data, CuGR, an integrated database for Cucurbitaceous germplasm resources, aims to advance science and agriculture by providing access to various types of omics datasets integrated comprehensively.

In current version, CuGR hosts the annotated reference genomes of wild cucumber (Cucumis sativus var. hardwickii) and cultivated cucumber (Cucumis sativus var. sativus L.), incorporates a variety of population data from 116 cucumber lines (including experiment results, geographic distribution, morphology, QTLs, variants, expression, orthologs and so on), deals with data collection, processing, visualizing and sharing online.

CuGR is designed to host large scale and complex data for Cucurbitaceae, unlike other database for Cucurbitaceae, CuGR provides abundant and more comprehensive information. The future directions of CuGR include increasing specie variety, integrating of other omics data with important traits and text mining on literatures. We are making efforts for build CuGR into a freely available, valuable and comprehensive website for basic and applied researches in Cucurbitaceae.

The Website

The integrated database for Cucurbitaceous Germplasm Resources aims to advance science and agriculture by providing access to various types of 'omics' datasets integrated comprehensively.

This CuGR website was designed to work with most commom browser. No addtional software is requried. The CuGR front pages are coded in HTML5 and CSS3 use the framework Bootstrap 3 ( Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web ) and thanks to fontawesome for their free icons. To provide friendly and interactive web pages, browser based interfaces, many JavaScript library are used in this web front end, jQuery ( jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library ) is used as the most basic JavaScript library, D3 ( D3 allows you to bind arbitrary data to a Document Object Model (DOM), and then apply data-driven transformations to the document ) creates interactive SVGs with smooth transitions and interaction, ECharts ( A pure Javascript chart library, can run smoothly on PC and mobile devices, provides intuitive, vivid, interactive, and highly customizable data visualization charts.) and Datatables ( A highly flexible tool, based upon the foundations of progressive enhancement, and will add advanced interaction controls to any HTML table.), bring those amazing charts and tables alive on pages. Meanwhile, layer provides the web user-friendly alerts.

We test the pages in Firefox 30.0, Safari 7.06, Chrome 37.0, it works well, but not work well in IE 9 and lower version.

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