Figure 2.

The GEP pipeline. Public whole-genome shotgun assemblies for the genomic regions of interest are split into numerous small “student-sized” projects. In most cases, draft assemblies of the projects are first finished to high-quality (see Materials and Methods for finishing standards). Draft sequences of high quality are given directly to students for annotation. All projects are analyzed by at least two students and then checked for discrepancies between student versions. Finally, the validated projects are reassembled into a single high-quality annotated genomic region for analysis and publication. D. virilis adult fly and a preparation of larval salivary gland polytene chromosomes from D. melanogaster are shown in the background.