REGENOMICS: A web-based application for plant REGENeration-associated transcriptOMICS analyses

In plants, differentiated somatic cells exhibit an exceptional ability to regenerate new tissues, organs, or whole plants. Recent studies have unveiled core genetic components and pathways underlying cellular reprogramming and de novo tissue regeneration in plants. Although high-throughput analyses have led to key discoveries in plant regeneration, a comprehensive organization of large-scale data is needed to further enhance our understanding of plant regeneration. Here, we collected all currently available transcriptome datasets related to wounding responses, callus formation, de novo organogenesis, somatic embryogenesis, and protoplast regeneration to construct REGENOMICS, a web-based application for plant REGENeration-associated transcriptOMICS analyses. REGENOMICS supports single- and multi-query analyses of plant regeneration-related gene-expression dynamics, co-expression networks, gene-regulatory networks, and single-cell expression profiles. Furthermore, it enables user-friendly transcriptome-level analysis of REGENOMICS-deposited and user-submitted RNA-seq datasets. Overall, we demonstrate that REGENOMICS can serve as a key hub of plant regeneration transcriptome analysis and greatly enhance our understanding on gene-expression networks, new molecular interactions, and the crosstalk between genetic pathways underlying each mode of plant regeneration. The REGENOMICS web-based application is available at http://plantregeneration.snu.ac.kr.