Chlamydomonas Annotation Meetings to be held in October 2003, and March 2004, in Walnut Creek, CA

位于加利福尼亚州核桃溪的联合基因组研究所将举行一系列两次会议，为莱茵衣藻基因组的几乎所有基因生成可靠的注释。这项工作将于 2003 年 10 月在国内和国际研究人员小组会议上启动，并于 2004 年 3 月举行的第二次会议（仅限国内参加者）期间完成。会议还有其他目标： 1）为主要研究人员、学生和博士后提供使用基因组浏览器和 cDNA 信息的培训； 2) 定义要纳入莱茵衣藻序列和微阵列数据库中的变化和新特征； 3) 提供信息以确定可用的不同类型基因模型的有用性； 4) 总结在消除基因组所有序列缺口方面所取得的进展； 5）将社区领袖聚集在一起讨论基因组的本质，并让学生有机会与该领域的许多顶级科学家见面和互动； 6）允许研究人员起草描述莱茵衣藻基因组的手稿大纲，并确定传播信息的策略，使科学界能够轻松获取这些信息。这些会议将使衣藻研究人员能够综合和组织有关该模式生物的大量信息，并确定需要采取哪些措施来优化其对科学界乃至未来全社会的有用性。

A series of two meetings to generate a robust annotation for nearly all of the genes of the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii genome will be held at the Joint Genome Institute located in Walnut Creek, California. The work is to be initiated in October,2003, at a meeting of a group of domestic and international investigators and is to be completed during a second meeting (with only domestic participants) in March, 2004. The meetings also have other objectives: 1) to provide principal investigators, students, and post-doctoral fellows with training in the use of the genome browser and cDNA information; 2) to define changes and new features to be incorporated into the C. reinhardtii sequence and microarray databases; 3) to provide information for determining the usefulness of the different types of gene models available; 4) to summarize progress being made with respect to closing all sequence gaps along the genome; 5)to bring leaders of the community together to discuss the nature of the genome, and give students the opportunity to meet and interact with many of the top-level scientists in the field; and 6)to allow investigators to draft an outline of a manuscript describing the C. reinhardtii genome and to determine strategies to disseminate the information, making it readily accessible to the scientific community.These meetings will enable Chlamydomonas researchers to synthesize and organize the wealth of information generated about this model organism, and to determine what is necessary to optimize its usefulness to the scientific community, and thus to all of society, in the future.