Welcome to MaizeGDB

Welcome to MaizeGDB!

MaizeGDB is a community-oriented, long-term, federally funded informatics service to researchers focused on the crop plant and model organism Zea mays.

MaizeGDB is a founding member of AgBioData, a consortuim of agriculture-related online resources which is committed to making agriculture-related research data FAIR.

Maize genetics community

Maize Genetics Meeting

The 68th Annual Maize Genetics Meeting will be held from February 26th - March 1st, 2026 at the Maritim Hotel, Cologne, Germany.

The 67th Annual Maize Genetics Meeting was held from March 6th - 9th, 2025 at the Union Station, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

Featured tools at MaizeGDB

A resource to BLAST your sequence against maize genomes and annotations.

A data warehouse to access genomic, proteomic, and literature data for maize.

A platform to compare gene and protein expression data across multiple genomes.

A set of comprehensive metabolic pathway resources for maize.

New tools at MaizeGDB

Fusariuim Protein Toolkit A set of tools and datasets to explore the functions and structures of the Fusarium proteome.

Phylostrata Phylostratigraphy determines the level of evolutionary conservation of a given protein.

PanEffect PanEffect: A tool to explore the variant effects across the maize pan-genome.

SNPversity 2.0 A tool to access large-scale maize genetic variation data.

Foldseek Search Fast comparisons of large protein structure sets.

Other tools at MaizeGDB

SNPversity 2.0

SNPversity: A tool to access large-scale maize genetic variation data.

TYPSimSelector

TYPSimSelector: A tool that sorts identity-by-state values derived from SNP datasets for accessions in the Ames Diversity Panel (a USDA-maintained set of maize lines representing wide genetic variation in Ames, Iowa).

PanEffect

PanEffect: A tool to explore the variant effects across the maize pan-genome.

Bin viewer

Bin Viewer: A tool to explore data in regions defined by genetic bins.

GenomeQC

GenomeQC: A tool to assess the quality of genome assemblies and annotations.

Maize Feature Store

MFS: A centralized resource to manage and analyze curated maize multi-omics features for machine learning applications.

Pedigree Viewer

Pedigree Viewer: A tool to visualize maize pedigree data and networks.

PAST

PAST: A tool that assigns your SNPs to genes and your genes to metabolic pathways.

Genome Context Viewer

GCV: A web-app that visualizes genomic context data in a single, federated interface by using functional annotations as a unit of search and comparison.