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PGDD 2.0: Plant Genome Duplication Database with updated content and tools

Donna Huber on November 26, 2025

Polyploidy and small-scale duplication have repeatedly reshaped plant genomes, making synteny and colinearity indispensable for evolutionary inference. We present PGDD 2.0 (accessible at chibba.agtec.uga.edu and pgdd2.org), a major update to the Plant Genome Duplication Database (PGDD) that now aggregates >120 complete telomere-to-telomere (T2T) assemblies, including many chromosome-scale genomes spanning all major Viridiplantae lineages. Each genome …

Creating databases to help cure diseases worldwide

Donna Huber on March 31, 2022

by Jill Neimark Jessica Kissinger poses for a photo in the Infectious Diseases Institute in Uganda where she is currently a US Fullbright Scholar. (Photo/Courtesy Jessica Kissinger) Jessica Kissinger is using her expertise in biology and big data to help other scientists Jessica Kissinger never set out to make databases. From the time she was …

Database offers tool for global health collaborations

Donna Huber on April 24, 2019

As the big data revolution continues to evolve, access to data that cut across many disciplines becomes increasingly valuable. In the field of public health, one barrier to sharing data is the need for users to fully comprehend complex methodological details and data variables in order to properly conduct analyses. The Clinical Epidemiology Database, ClinEpiDB.org, aims …

Data boost: Using big data to fight disease

Donna Huber on September 28, 2018

From leisure to health, digital databases can streamline nearly every facet of modern life. Remember when making travel plans to a single destination took hours? Now booking flights, hotels and rental cars is just a few clicks—and a credit card—away thanks to travel sites like Expedia, Travelocity and others. Travelers get to compare competitors on …

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