Mockler Lab

Tools

Through the course of its research, the Mockler lab has developed a variety of tools that are useful to the general community.

Diurnal

Diurnal provides convenient access to circadian and diurnal gene expression data for several model plant species including Arabidopsis thaliana, Brachypodium Distachyon, Oryza sativa, and Populus trichocarpa. All of the rhythmic genes have been modeled, which you can interactive view online, or you can download the statistical results for use in your own studies.

Arabidopsis Splicing Database

The Arabidopsis Splicing Database was a catalog of all splicing in the TAIR 10 annotation of Arabidopsis thaliana. This resource is no longer maintained, but similar data is available through Phytozome.

Element

Element was a motif identification tool that takes a set or sets of inputed promoters and identifies all of the statistically overrepresented motifs in those sequences. The results could then be viewed and manipulated online or downloaded for further analysis. Element supported searches across multiple genomes to identify motifs overrepresented across both. This tool is no longer maintained, but similar functionality is available through MEME Suite.

Haystack

Haystack is a tool for identifying most highly correlated model for a data series. It operates by calculating the Pearson correlation pairwise between a user supplied data series and model. The model with the largest correlation that passes the cutoff filters is added to the result set. They Haystack script can be downloaded here.

Orthomap

Orthomap was a web based tool for identifying bioinformatic orthologs between genomes. A list of locus/isoform identifiers was used to return the best BLAST matches for the queries against a target genome. This tool is no longer maintained, but similar functionality is available through OrthoFinder and data is available for many species via Phytozome.

Phaser

Phaser was a web-based tool that allows users to quickly determine if a set of genes that have known diurnal/circadian data are rhythmic and overrepresented for a particular phase of peak expression. This tool is no longer maintained.