KAGIANA
The keyholes for viewing gene function & evolution

★ The concept of the KAGIANA Project

♦ Concept

• The project started with the publication of the KAGIANA tool to support gene function analysis in plants.
• In these years, the project has aimed for analyses of genes in the whole organisms.
• Especially, the aim is focused on evolusion & function of genes.
• It provides several tools & databases below for such purposes.

♦ What is “kagiana”?

• The term “kagiana” means “keyhole” in Japanese.
• We hope that these tools & databases become keyholes for analyzing gene function & evolution.
• We believe that any researchers hold keys for such keyholes.
• The background image of the title was took at the Gran Priorato di Roma Sovrano Militare Ordine di Malta.

★ Tools & databases

♦ KAGIANA An Excel-based tool to retrieve Arabidopsis gene information. In the near future, the KAGIANA tool for other organism groups will be released. The article of KAGIANA is available here.
♦ CoP A database to retrieve information on microarray gene expression in plants. The beta version of Xcorn database, the renewal version of CoP, has been released. The articles of CoP are available here.
♦ RnR A database of a researach on regulatory networks of Arabidopsis based on a large dataset of over-expression experiments. In the research, 210 experiments are contained.
♦ Gcorn Databases to retrieve homologous genes in the view of evolution & function. The database of plant genes (Gcorn plant) is available. The databases of other eukaryotic genes will be published in 2019 in order of completion. As of January 2019, Those of fungi & protozoa will be under construction.
♦ Xcorn Databases to overview gene expression analyses on the basis of grouping experiments. As of January 2019, the database of plant gene with microarray experiments (Xcorn plant β version) is available.
♦ PLAGO A database to overview RNA-Seq analyses of plants.
♦ ConfeitoGUI A stand-alone toolkit for extracting local communities, based on the Confeito algorithm. The Confeito algorithm is useful to detect local communities from a correlation network in a size-sensitive manner. The articles of ConfeitoGUI are availavle here.
♦ MagicSuite A one-click toolkit for next-generation sequencing such as analyses of DNA, RNA-Seq & 16S rDNA.

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