ABSTRACT
The grapevine genomic data has been increasing very rapidly since the start of the International Grape Genome Program in 2001 (IGGP) (www. vitaceae.org). Starting from scratch at that time, the genome sequence has been published twice (Jaillon et al. 2007; Velasco et al. 2007), more than 360,000 expressed sequence tags (ESTs) are now available (Vitis vinifera: July 2010, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nucest), and large efforts in proteomics and metabolomics have been successful (Chapter 12). There is more than ever a need for common databases and bioinformatics tools to allow a wide and deep use of these important resources. The fi rst policy of the IGGP was to advise that deposition of the resources should be placed in public databases like the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). This advice has been followed for the most part by the grapevine community. However, there is also a need for better coordination in many aspects and of an interface with NCBI. As the grapevine community is a rather small one when compared to the community working on Arabidopsis, it will be diffi cult to raise funds to end up with a highly centralized and productive system like TAIR (https://www.arabidopsis.org). Other more collaborative initiatives are proposed such as for the Sol project (Menda et al. 2008) and may be a good middle term system. Such a model could be followed in the future with the help of the French national repository for plant genomic data (URGI; https://urgi.versailles.inra.fr/).
