Before his work in St. Louis, he was a post-doctoral fellow in the departments of Biology and Zoology at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. He is a native of Houston, Texas. As SoyBase curator, Grant, with the assistance of Marcia Imsande, maintains and updates the database and does presentations and training. He is also involved in making modifications to the database models, such as expansions to include new data types and changes to old models to facilitate their use. In the future, he plans to add new data types, such as graphical pedigrees, QTL maps, composite genetic maps, and others.
Grant encourages contributions from the soybean community.
SoyBase can only be as useful as the data it includes. In particular, we are interested in mapping information so we can include it in the composite genetic map. We can accept data in any format.