Table I. The Dictyostelium genome sequencing consortium.
| Project partner | Responsibility | Chromosomea | Starting year | Project website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Cologne, Cologne, GermanyGenome Sequencing Center, Jena, Germany | Sequencing, assembly, annotation | 1, 2 and 3 | 1998 | http://www.uni-koeln.de/dictyostelium/http://genome.imb-jena.de/dictyostelium/ |
| Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA | Sequencing, assembly, annotation | 4 and 2/3 of 6 | 1998 | http://dictygenome.bcm.tmc.edu/ |
| Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UKUniversity of Dundee, Dundee, UKMedical Research Council, Cambridge, UK | Sequencing, assembly, annotation | 5 | 2000 | http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/D_discoideum/ |
| EUDICT Consortiumb | Sequencing, assembly, annotation | 1/3 of 6 | 1998 | http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/D_discoideum/ |
| Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA | Separation of chromosomes | 1–6 | 1998 | http://www.molbio.princeton.edu/research_facultymember.php?id=22 |
| Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK | Library preparation | 1–6 | 1998 | http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/D_discoideum/ |
| Medical Research Council, Cambridge, UK | Genome-wide HAPPY map | 1–6 | 1998 | http://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk:80/happy/happy-home-page.html |
| Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA | dictyBase, curation of genomic data | 1–6 | 2002 | http://dictybase.org/ |
| University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan | cDNA project | ESTs | 1996 | http://www.csm.biol.tsukuba.ac.jp/cDNAproject.html |
aBased on the YAC physical map by Kuspa and Loomis (1996), the chromosome sizes in Mb are as follows: C1, 5.5; C2, 6.9; C3, 5.3; C4, 6.2; C5, 5.3; C6, 4.1.
bMembers of the EUDICT consortium: Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK; University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany; Pasteur Institute, Paris, France; University of Dundee, Dundee, UK; Medical Research Council Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.