The Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA): developing community resources to study diverse invertebrate genomes.

ABSTRACT: Over 95% of all metazoan (animal) species comprise the "invertebrates," but very few genomes from these organisms have been sequenced. We have, therefore, formed a "Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance" (GIGA). Our intent is to build a collaborative network of diverse scientists to tackle major challenges (e.g., species selection, sample collection and storage, sequence assembly, annotation, analytical tools) associated with genome/transcriptome sequencing across a large taxonomic spectrum. We aim to promote standards that will facilitate comparative approaches to invertebrate genomics and collaborations across the international scientific community. Candidate study taxa include species from Porifera, Ctenophora, Cnidaria, Placozoa, Mollusca, Arthropoda, Echinodermata, Annelida, Bryozoa,

SUBMITTER: GIGA Community of Scientists 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4072906 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature