The realDB, launched by Dr. Fei Chen and Dr. Liangsheng Zhang , maintains a database of genome and transcriptome data for the less represented red algae or the phylum Rhodophyta. Currently, realDB provides the BLAST server, Jbrowse, and Download server and more, for easy accessing the ome data and omics tools representing all the 7 classes of red algae
Maca
Maca (Lepidium meyenii Walp), belonging to the Brassicaceae family, is an economically important plant cultivated in the central Andean region at 4000–4450 m above sea level. Its tremendous health benefits, particularly to reproduction and fertility, have drawn great investments from pharmacological research in recent years.
