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Rice is a major food staple for the world’s population and serves as a model species in cereal genome research. The Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) has long been devoting itself to sequencing, information analysis and biological research of the rice and other crop genomes. In order to facilitate the application of the rice genomic information and to provide a foundation for functional and evolutionary studies of other important cereal crops, we implemented our Rice Information System (BGI‐RIS), the most up‐to‐date integrated information resource as well as a workbench for comparative genomic analysis. In addition to comprehensive data from Oryza sativa L. ssp. indica sequenced by BGI, BGI‐RIS also hosts carefully curated genome information from Oryza sativa L. ssp . japonica and EST sequences available from other cereal crops. In this resource, sequence contigs of indica (93‐11) have been further …