MCB10014, Genome Informatics for animals and plants related NSF Award: 0640462, Shared genome database informatics and cyberinfrastructure

Abstract

The research focus is developing for and using shared cyberinfrastructure for assembly, annotation and comparative analysis of new eukaroyte genomes. This sixth year has produced substantial results with EvidentialGene: 1. A complete gene set and genome annotation for the environmental, population genomic killifish Fundulus heteroclitus; 2. A complete, finished gene set for the environmental genomic model water flea Daphnia magna; 3. Assistance to the loblolly pine genome project [1] with transcript assembly methods and computations; 4. Draft gene assemblies for honey bee (Apis mel.) and deer tick (Ixodes scap.) of significance for agricultural and health improvements. In conjunction with gene set production, new algorithms for merging methods of transcriptome and genome construction have been conceived, developed and implemented in the EvidentialGene code set for these projects.