Towards comprehensive integration and curation of chloroplast genomes

Dear Editor, Chloroplasts are semi-autonomous genetic organelles that contain their own DNA. Since the first chloroplast genome was sequenced in 1986, chloroplast genomes have been extensively utilized as fundamental tools in plant phylogenetics and genetically modified to produce protein drugs, especially in the fight against COVID-19 (Daniell et al., 2021, 2022). [...]the chloroplast genomes of numerous plant species, particularly economically significant crops, have been continuously sequenced. The synonyms are also listed in the search results, enabling researchers to determine whether to use these assemblies (Figure 1c). Because chloroplast data are always used in interspecies comparisons, the CGIR also provides a taxonomy tree view for users who are concerned with specific aspects of chloroplast data (e.g., rbcL gene, CDS sequences) in higher taxa (Figure 1j).