RCN: The Porphyra Genome: Promoting Resource Development and Integrative Research in Algal Genomics

该项目将促进对一种经济上重要的红色紫菜紫菜（紫菜）基因组的研究，这是联合基因组研究所（DOE）目前的一个测序项目。 Porphrya基因组的分析将包括与密切相关和衍生群体的基因组的比较研究（例如，其它红藻、绿色藻类、腰鞭毛虫）。 该项目的总体目标是建立一个研究人员网络，其成员将提供最高质量的紫菜基因组公开传播，供世界各地的研究人员使用，同时促进新的合作，这将导致基因组数据的实验应用。 可以预见，RCN辅助使用紫菜基因组将导致新的理解核细胞器的共同进化，在光合生物的氮和碳代谢的研究，多细胞复杂性如何独立地出现在不同的真核生物群体的比较调查，并产生丰富的新的分子进化和系统学研究的标记。 区域协调网络将每年举行一次会议，与会者全年不断开展工作。 每次年会都将包括正式的生物信息学培训，对基因组注释的整体质量进行评估，以及关于基因组数据的跨基因组和实验应用的研究报告和讨论。RCN将包括许多学生和博士后研究员，他们将形成一个围绕核心问题组织的基因组学胜任的年轻研究人员小组，这些问题将影响关键的社会需求，包括多营养水产养殖（e.例如，在一个实施例中，生物修复）和光合作用和光保护色素的综合分析，因为它们影响我们变暖的星球上的碳代谢。 该网站将为K-12和大学教师提供与基因组相关的课程，RCN将赞助公共集会和专业研讨会，介绍基因组计划的许多贡献，同时强调从事这项工作的科学家的多样性。

This project will promote studies of the genome of an economically important red alga, Porphyra ("nori", "laver"), which is a current sequencing project at the Joint Genome Institute (DOE). Analysis of the Porphrya genome will include comparative studies with genomes of closely related and derived groups (e.g., other red algae, green algae, dinoflagellates). The overall goal of this project is to establish a network of investigators whose members will provide the highest quality public dissemination of the Porphyra genome for use by researchers worldwide, while fostering new collaborations that will lead to experimental application of the genomic data. It is anticipated that RCN-aided use of the Porphyra genome will lead to new understanding of nuclear-organelle co-evolution, studies of nitrogen and carbon metabolism in photosynthetic organisms, comparative investigations of how multicellular complexity arose independently in different eukaryotic groups, and the generation of a wealth of new markers for studies in molecular evolution and systematics. The RCN will meet annually, with continued work among participants throughout the year. Each annual meeting will include formal bioinformatics training, evaluation of the overall quality of genome annotation, and research reports and discussions on cross-genomic and experimental applications of the genomic data. The RCN will include many students and postdoctoral fellows who will form a group of genomics-competent young researchers organized around central questions that will impact key societal needs including multitrophic aquaculture (e. g., bioremediation) and an integrated analysis of photosynthetic and photoprotective pigments as they affect carbon metabolism on our warming planet. The website will include genome-related lessons for K-12 and college instructors, and the RCN will sponsor public convocations and professional symposia that will present the many contributions of the genome project while highlighting the diversity of scientists engaged in this work.