Important information, data centers, tools and news items are accessible from the MaizeGDB home page

<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "MaizeGDB's new data types, resources and activities"</p><p>Nucleic Acids Research 2007;35(Database issue):D895-D900.</p><p>Published online Jan 2007</p><p>PMCID:PMC1899092.</p><p>© 2006 The Author(s)</p> Data and bulletin boards as well as links to noteworthy or high profile projects are accessible directly on the front page. All MaizeGDB pages have the same header, which is loaded with functionality enabling, e.g. searches of all data from any page () and access to tools including the Community Curation Tools. The ‘Maps’ Data Center () can limit results by contained loci, chromosome, source or mapping panel and also allows direct access to unique map types including the Recombination Nodule maps through its ‘Map Reports and Tools’ section. Likewise, the ‘Stocks’ Data Center () enables queries by focus linkage group, genotypic variation, karyotypic variation and other limitors. Bulletin boards that keep researchers connected with the community include the Editorial Board (), the Maize Genetics Executive Committee pages (), and the Annual Maize Genetics Conference, (which is referred to simply as ‘The Maize Meeting’) site (). Dates of database updates are available directly on the front page (), as are important major efforts of interest to all maize researchers like the Maize Genome Sequencing project