1CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institut, F-34398 Montpellier, France 2UMR AGAP Institut, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, F-34398 Montpellier, France 3French Institute of Bioinformatics (IFB) - South Green Bioinformatics Platform, Bioversity, CIRAD, INRAE, IRD, F-34398 Montpellier, France 4Bioversity International, Parc Scientifique Agropolis II, 34397 Montpellier, France 5CIRAD, UMR INTERTRYP, F-34398 Montpellier, France 6INTERTRYP, Université de Montpellier, CIRAD, IRD, 34398 Montpellier, France 7Syngenta Seeds SAS, Saint-Sauveur, 31790, France 8DIADE, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, IRD, Montpellier, 34830, France 9IITA, Nairobi P.O. Box 30709-00100, Kenya 10Génomique Métabolique, Genoscope, Institut François Jacob, CEA, CNRS, Univ Evry, Université Paris-Saclay, 2 rue Gaston Crémieux, 91057 Evry, France 11Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510520, China 12Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510520, China 13Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK *Corresponding author. E-mail: gaetan.droc@cirad.fr,m.rouard@cgiar.org
The Banana Genome Hub provides centralized access for genome assemblies, annotations, and the extensive related omics resources available for bananas and banana relatives. A series of tools and unique interfaces are implemented to harness the potential of genomics in bananas, leveraging the power of comparative analysis, while recognizing the differences between datasets. Besides effective genomic tools like BLAST and the JBrowse genome browser, additional interfaces enable advanced gene search and gene family analyses including multiple alignments and phylogenies. A synteny viewer enables the comparison of genome structures between chromosome-scale assemblies. Interfaces for differential expression analyses, metabolic pathways and GO enrichment were also added. A catalogue of variants spanning the banana diversity is made available for exploration, filtering, and export to a wide variety of software. Furthermore, we implemented new ways to graphically explore gene presence-absence in pangenomes as well as genome ancestry mosaics for cultivated bananas. Besides, to guide the community in future sequencing efforts, we provide recommendations for nomenclature of locus tags and a curated list of public genomic resources (assemblies, resequencing, high density genotyping) and upcoming resources—planned, ongoing or not yet public. The Banana Genome Hub aims at supporting the banana scientific community for basic, translational, and applied research and can be accessed at https://banana-genome-hub.southgreen.fr.