Caenorhabditis Genome Analysis Consortium, composition as of March 15, 2012:

General Category Specific Task Person Address




Preparations for genome sequencing 20x incrossing of remanei PB4641 and brenneri PB2801 Scott E. Baird Department of Biological Sciences, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA

20x incrossing of japonica DF5081 Karin C. Kiontke Department of Biology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA

Physical determination of genome sizes J. Spencer Johnston Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA




Genome sequencing at WashU
Genomic library analysis Makedonka Mitreva Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63108, USA


Sahar Abubucker


Zhengyuan Wang

Genomic library assembly and submission Patrick Minx Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63108, USA


Joanne O. Nelson


Asif T. Chinwala


Shunfang Hou

Genomic library finishing Robert S. Fulton Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63108, USA


Tina A. Graves


Aye Wollam


Lee Trani


Scott S. Kruchowski


Chad Tomlinson


Laura P. Courtney


Neha Shah


Rachel M. Abbott


Amy D. Kozlowicz-Reily


Cynthia Strong

Genomic library production Lucinda L. Fulton Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63108, USA


Kimberley D. Delehaunty


Michelle O'Laughlin


Catrina C. Fronick


Elizabeth L. Appelbaum

Reliable formatting for NCBI submission Philip Ozersky Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63108, USA




Genome sequencing outside WashU
Caenorhabditis sp. 5 JU800 sequencing and assembly
Sujai Kumar Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings Campus, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK


Mark Blaxter

C. angaria, revised sequencing and assembly
Erich M. Schwarz
Division of Biology, 156-29, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA


Igor Antoshechkin


khmer-filtering of cDNA for RNA-scaffolding
C. Titus Brown
MSU, Microb. & Mol. Gen. and Comp. Sci. & Engineering, E. Lansing, MI, 48824

C. sp. 9, resequencing and assembly
Barbara J. Meyer
HHMI, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3204, USA


[Meyer lab members]



Erich M. Schwarz





Genome heterozygosity Scan for heterozygosity Shiaw-Pyng Yang Monsanto Company, Chesterfield Ridge Center, 16401 Swingley Ridge, 5th Floor, Suite 500, Chesterfield, MO 63017 USA

Complete, but non-summarized, genomic regions of likely heterozygosity Shiaw-Pyng Yang

Summarizing the heterozygosity data Erich M. Schwarz Division of Biology, 156-29, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA




Genome repeats Repeat prediction with Repeatmodeler, i.e., RepeatScout and RECON Erich M. Schwarz Division of Biology, 156-29, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

Analysis of genomic repeats Ismael A. Vergara Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada


Nansheng [Jack] Chen


David Baillie

Filtered genomic repeats, compared vs.Caeno. spp. and Pristionchus Ismael A. Vergara


Nansheng [Jack] Chen

Filter against prot.-coding, ncRNA genes Nansheng [Jack] Chen Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada

Repeatmask genome against filtered, merged set Michael Paulini Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SA, UK

Chromosome-specific short DNA repeats Marc D. Perry Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, 101 College Street, Suite 800, Toronto, Ontario M5G 0A3, Canada




Protein-coding gene prediction Gene sets, pre-2011 Kymberlie H. Pepin Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63108, USA


Tamberlyn Bieri


Philip Ozersky


William E. Nash


Min-Ho Lee University at Albany, SUNY, Department of Biology, Albany, NY 12222, USA, mhlee@albany.edu


Darin Blasiar Monsanto Company, 700 Chesterfield Pkwy W, CC3A, Chesterfield, MO 63017, USA

RNA-seq-based and ab initio gene sets, 2011-2012 Erich M. Schwarz Division of Biology, 156-29, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

Predicting small ORFs reliably Kousuke Hanada Plant Science Center and Bioinformatics and Systems Engineering Division, RIKEN, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan


Shin-Han Shiu Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA




ncRNA gene prediction RFAM/INFERNAL Sam Griffiths-Jones Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK


Hubert Rogers Faculty of Life Sciences, Michael Smith Building, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PT, UK

de novo ncRNA prediction with RNAz, along with other prediction tools Frank Jühling Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, and Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig, Härtelstraße 16-18, D-04107 Leipzig, Germany


Hakim Tafer Department of Theoretical Chemistry University of Vienna, Währingerstraße 17, A-1090 Wien, Austria


Dominic Rose


Manja Marz Institut für Pharmazeutische Chemie, Bau C, Marbacher Weg 6, D-35032 Marburg, Germany


Jana Hertel


Sebastian Bartschat


Stephanie Kehr


Wolfgang Otto


Alexander Donath


Andrea Tanzer Department of Theoretical Chemistry University of Vienna, Währingerstraße 17, A-1090 Wien, Austria


Clara Bermudez-Santana Department of Biology, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Carrera 45 No 26-85, Edificio Uriel Guitierrez, Bogotá, DC. Colombia


Andreas R. Gruber Department of Theoretical Chemistry University of Vienna, Währingerstraße 17, A-1090 Wien, Austria


Jan Engelhardt


Anke Busch


Michael Hiller Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA


Peter F. Stadler Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, and Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig, Härtelstraße 16-18, D-04107 Leipzig, Germany



Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Inselstraße 22, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany



Fraunhofer Institut für Zelltherapie und Immunologie, IZI, Perlickstraße 1, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany



Department of Theoretical Chemistry University of Vienna, Währingerstraße 17, A-1090 Wien, Austria



Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Rd., Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA

de novo discovery of snoRNAs Paul Po-Shen Wang Department of Ecology and Evolution and Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA


Ilya Ruvinsky




Multigenome alignment and conserved ncDNA FSA whole-genome alignment Robert K. Bradley Departments of Mathematics and of Molecular & Cellular Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA


Lior Pachter


Colin N. Dewey Departments of Computer Sciences and of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA

PECAN genomic alignments/synteny Michael Paulini Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SA, UK

Multiz whole-genome alignment Hiram Clawson Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Conserved ncDNA blocks in the nematode phylum Sujai Kumar Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK


Mark Blaxter

Sanger PECAN/GERP whole-genome analysis Michael Paulini Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SA, UK




Transcriptomics RNAseq data and analyses for C. briggsae LaDeana W. Hillier Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, 1705 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, WA 98195, USA


Robert H. Waterston Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA




Gene organization and synteny Operons and conserved gene ordering Wenfeng Qian


Jianzhi Zhang Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA

OrthoCluster Nansheng [Jack] Chen

CYNTENATOR Christoph Dieterich Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin-Buch, Robert-Rössle-Str. 10, Berlin 13092, Germany




Cis-regulatory motifs Core promoter motif predictions Uladzislau 'Vlad' Hryshkevich Department of Biology, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 30900, Israel


Itai Yanai

Motif-aware FSA Rahul Satija Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, 1 South Parks Road, OX1 3TG Oxford, UK


Lior Pachter Departments of Mathematics and of Molecular & Cellular Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA




Protein-coding gene evolution and orthology Evolution of introns, codon divergence, and codon bias Asher D. Cutter Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Centre for the Analysis of Genome Evolution and Function, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3B2, Canada

Large-scale ortholog evolutionary trees Asher D. Cutter Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Centre for the Analysis of Genome Evolution and Function, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3B2, Canada


David H.A. Fitch Department of Biology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA


Karin C. Kiontke

CD-HIT/OrthoMCL Erich M. Schwarz Division of Biology, 156-29, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

Modified OrthoMCL orthologies for protein-coding genes Ana P.C. Rodrigues


Gerard Manning Razavi Newman Center for Bioinformatics, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA

Compara Michael Paulini Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SA, UK

TreeFam orthologies, and vs. OrthoMCL orthologies Avril Coghlan

Scans for accelerated evolution and expansions of protein domains Alexander Kanapin Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK


Lincoln D. Stein Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, 101 College Street, Suite 800, Toronto, Ontario M5G 0A3, Canada

Lineage-specific domains and domain architectures James Wasmuth


John Parkinson Program in Molecular Structure and Function, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2L3, Canada




Comparisons with parasitic nematodes Genomic comparisons with Trichinella Zhengyuan Wang Genome Sequencing Center, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA


Sahar Abubucker


Makedonka Mitreva

Analysis of parasite-specific gene families via NEMBASE4 Mark Blaxter Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK

Nematode-specific genes, parasitism-related genes, pathogenicity islands, etc. Mark Blaxter Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK

Orthology groups conserved in free-living nematodes but lost in parasites Erich M. Schwarz Division of Biology, 156-29, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA




Sex-determination and hermaphroditism Genome size and hermaphrodite-specific gene losses Erich M. Schwarz Division of Biology, 156-29, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

Specific evolution of sex-determination genes Eric S. Haag Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA


Ronald E. Ellis Department of Molecular Biology, School of Osteopathic Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Stratford, NJ 08084, USA




Other analyses Stress-induced duplex destabilization (SIDD) of genomic DNA Ian Korf UC Davis Genome Center, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA


Craig J. Benham