The PMN staff members work at Michigan State University in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Plant Resilience Institute. The PMN curators are involved in curating plant metabolic pathways from the literature into the appropriate species-specific metabolic database, such as AraCyc or CornCyc, or directly into PlantCyc if PMN does not yet have a database for the species in which the pathway was described. In addition, all of the pathways supported by experimental evidence are entered into MetaCyc.
PMN staff members are also involved in the generation of new species-specific metabolic pathway databases, such as PoplarCyc, using the PMN database generation pipeline.
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PMN staff - May 2008:
Anjo Chi, Bob Muller, Larry Ploetz, Sue Rhee, Vanessa Kirkup, Kate Dreher, A.S Karthikeyan, Peifen Zhang, and Cynthia Lee
Not shown: Eva Huala, Chris Wilks, Raymond Chetty, Shanker Singh, and Tom Meyer
Collaborators curate pathways or provide support for individual species-specific databases that were created and/or maintained by them. There is data exchange between PlantCyc and the collaborators' databases. There is also coordination of curation to set consistent curation rules and eliminate redundant efforts.
The release notes associated with each new version of PlantCyc list the information from the collaborators' databases that has been entered into PlantCyc. Each additional pathway entered may help to improve the ability of the Pathologic program to predict more pathways as new single species databases are generated using PlantCyc as a reference standard.
MetaCyc (general contact information)
SRI International
MaizeGDB - co-curator of CornCyc (general contact information)
MaizeGDB
Walther Group at GoFORSYS - co-curator of ChlamyCyc (general contact information)
Bernhardt-Walther Group at University of Toronto
CapCyc, CoffeaCyc, LycoCyc, NicotianaCyc, PetuniaCyc, PotatoCyc, and SolaCyc (general contact information)
Sol Genomics Network (SGN)
PMN contributors from around the world have added to or helped to improve the content of AraCyc, PlantCyc, and the other PlantCyc-derived databases that are part of the PMN.
In addition to the active contributions from the PMN editorial board and PMN collaborators, the following individuals have contributed significantly in improving the content of PlantCyc, AraCyc and the other PlantCyc-derived databases that are part of the PMN.
