Welcome to Weigel World Bioinformatics!

This site aggregates the various bioinformatic tools and resources developed and hosted by WeigelWorld, aka Department of Molecular Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, a leading provider of plant genomics information.

A detailed description of our research program can be found on our main website.

Webtools

methyl MA GBrowse
A Gbrowse instance of A. thaliana methylation profiles.
WMD3
Automated design of artificial microRNAs.
MSQT
Multiple SNP query tool.
POLYMORPH
Storage, retrieval, analysis and visualization of polymorphism data.
AtGenExpress
Micro array visualization tool.
Guppy Databases
Guppy EST and marker databases.
>> Comprehensive list of all tools

News

September 20, 2011
Spontaneous epigenetic variation in the Arabidopsis thaliana methylome published online in Nature.
August 28, 2011
First major 1001 Genomes paper out in Nature Genetics: Whole-genome sequencing of multiple Arabidopsis thaliana populations

June 21, 2011
Reference-guided assembly of four diverse Arabidopsis thaliana genomes published in PNAS