Although hundreds of medical plants have been sequenced,
the related data were scattered at different sources, which hindered the
systematical researches on medical plants. To solve such a challenge,
we proposed the integrative database called Traditional Chinese Medicine Plant
Genome (TCMPG). TCMPG not only deposits the genome data of traditional
Chinese medical plants, but also provides a series of computational tools for
researchers to perform systematical analysis. At present, 274
kinds of plants, 324 corresponding genomes, 414 herbs (different parts
from the same plant), and 13868 ingredients, together with the related information on plant species, genomes,
and herbal medicines were included in TCMPG.
Moreover, the main genomic analysis tools, namely the BLAST to find orthologs from different plant,
SSR Finder to identify SSRs, JBrowse to browse genomes, Synteny Viewer to display the syntenic
blocks between two genomes, HmmSearch to identify protein domain,Heatmap to draw heatmaps, Primer3 to design PCR primers, PlantiSMASH to view BGCs, and CRISPRCasFinder to search for CRISPR arrays and Cas proteins, were also embedded in TCMPG,
which will facilitate the systematical analysis on medical plants. Once new data was reported,
TCMPG will be updated and improved in time.
Version History:
2023.08: TCMPG 2.0 Released
2021.11: TCMPG 1.0 Released