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| The Blaxter Lab at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh | ||
Nematode and Neglected Genomics at www.nematodes.org
The Blaxter lab website, databases and services, version 3.0
NEWS:
July 2008: NEMBASE3 paper, describing biology of over 150,000 nematode genes, published in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
NEMBASE3 is our database of nematode genes, derived from expressed sequence tags. In the database we identify many novel genes and gene families, and can associate these with prasitism phenotypes.July 2008: Meloidogyne incognita genome sequencing paper published in Nature Biotechnology
In collaboration with Pierre Abad, Etienne Danchin and colelagues including Genoscope, we participated in the annotation of the second parasitic nematode genome. Meloidogyne incognita is an important and devastating plant parasite.July 2008: Earthworm responses to pollution: paper published in the open-access journal BMC Genomics
In collaboration with colleagues in Cardiff, london and CEH, we analysed the transcriptome responses of the earthworm lumbricus rubellus to pollutants such as cadmium and fluoranthene, identifying novel modes of response to these compounds. The project database, LumbriBASE, is housed in Edinburgh.
NEMBASE3 released
NEMBASE3, our Nematode EST Analysis Resource, is now live.
NEMBASE3 includes robust protein predictions (NemPep3), protein families (NemFam3) and novel domain predictions (NemDom3) for 37 species and over 150,000 proteins.NEMBASE3 was built by Ralf Schmid and Ann Hedley; NemPep3, NemFam3 and NemDom3 were built by James Wasmuth; the web interface was engineered by Ann Hedley
This website offers links to
serving genomics information for nematodes and other metazoan phyla freely downloadable solutions to expressed sequence tag analysis problems, DNA barcode analysis and phylogenomics the work we do in IEB, Edinburgh on the evolution and diversity of animals our services
The GenePool sequencing service and the NERC MGF sequencing facility Please use the navigation bar on the right to tour this site.
The website is continuously "under reconstruction" - please email mark.blaxter-at-ed.ac.uk if you find a significant broken link.
BaNG website, version 3.02, August 1st 2008
...other interesting things... 
The hookworm Ancylostoma caninum. Hookworms are gut parasites of a wide range of vertebrates, including humans. This species is a dog parasite used as a research model for human hookworm disease. See NEMBASE3 for analyses of ESTs from this parasite and many other nematodes. |