Genome Project Solutions
Sequencing and informatics with both academic and corporate partners
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NEWS
October 2009: Genome Project Solutions receives funding as a subaward from the University of Massachusetts Medical School (with Steve Reppert as Project Director) to determine and interpret a high-depth draft sequence of the genome of the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus . . . more information
October 2009: Jeffrey Boore gives an invited talk entitled "The GATOR and PHRINGE System for Reconstructing the Evolutionary History of Genes and Genomes" at the semi-annual Boehringer-Ingelheim Fonds Titisee conference on "Genome Evolution and the Origin of Novel Gene Functions" in Titisee-Neustadt, Germany.
September 2009: Jeffrey Boore gives a presentation at the California Academy of Sciences to an auditorium of high schol biology teachers as part of their annual "BioForum" outreach. The talk was entitled "Genomics: Where Have We Come and Where are We Going?" as part of this year's theme "Genomics: Insights and Impacts".
July 2009: Both Boore and Fuerstenberg participate in and present at the CIPRES ("Cyberinfrastructure for Phylogenetic Research") meeting in Berkeley, CA.
July 2009: Genome Project Solutions releases version 3 of the PHRINGE evolutionary analysis of oomycete and diatom genomes. This now adds the complete gene set of another oomycete, Pythium ultimum, bringing the total number of genes analyzed to 109,682. Much of the code and presentation has been rewritten. . . more information
June 2009: Genome Project Solutions describes the GATOR and PHRINGE systems at the annual meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution in Iowa City and the Arthropod Genomics Meeting in Kansas City.
May 2009: Genome Project Solutions begins a project to sequence the whole genome of a green alga using a mix of next generation sequencing technologies.
March 2009: Genome Project Solutions describes the newest tools for whole genome evolutionary analysis for oomycetes and diatoms at the annual meeting of the Oomyete Molecular Genetics Network in Asilomar, California.
January 2009: Genome Project Solutions unveils the plan and outline of the GATOR (Genome Analysis Tools and Online Resources) system for presenting whole eukaryotic genomes at the annual Plant and Animal Genomes Conference in San Diego.
January 2009: Genome Project Solutions releases version 2 of the PHRINGE evolutionary analysis of oomycete and diatom genomes . . . more information
October 2008: Both Boore and Fuerstenberg particpate in the annual Genome Informatics Meeting at the Genome Campus in Hinxton, UK.
*September 2008: Both Boore and Fuerstenberg particpate in a four-day workshop of the Genomic Standards Consortium at the Genome Campus in Hinxton, UK, then meet with scientists at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Stirling.
July 2008: Jeffrey Boore gives the invited plenary lecture at the International Congress on Copepodology in Pattaya, Thailand, and both he and Susan Fuerstenberg participate in a two-day workshop on chosing the best copepod and the best technology for whole genome sequencing . . . more information
July 2008: Genome Project Solutions acquires a license to CLC Bio's "Genomics Workbench" . . . more information
June 2008: Genome Project Solutions delivers an evolutionary analysis of all genes along with ortholog colinearity maps for seven completely sequenced stramenopile genomes in time for the Hyaloperonospora genome "jamboree" at Virginia Tech . . . more information
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