What are some examples of scientific queries that can be answered using CMap?
CMap allows a user to draw comparisons between different maps. These maps can be of different type (e.g., genetic and physical) and from different species (e.g., rice and maize). Users can view where genes, markers, and QTL are located in one grass species compared to where they may be located in a number of other grasses. You can examine the colinearity of a particular region in one species compared to another or infer which linkage group in one species is most conserved with a linkage group in another species. Users can also determine which maps are the best to compare to each other using CMap’s Matrix. You can also determine the location of a particular trait or marker and to which grass species they have been mapped.
