News and Who's Involved

01 July 2004
After some delay, the TardiBase www site is being populated with more data... We expect to complete this in the next 2 weeks.

16 January 2004
TardiBASE has been updated with all the Hypsibius dujardini ESTs currently submitted to Genbank (3253). All the clustering data is currently accessible and more blasts are currently beign done and will be added to the database soon.

The remainder of the web pages for tardigrades.org will be properly updated in the next few weeks.

22 December 2003
Tardigrades.org new web site posted on the web. The site is currently still under construction but does allow access to TardiBASE and searching the tardigrade EST data. The web site should be completed and all the empty pages filled early in the New year. Apologies until then!.

 

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TardiBase and this website were initiated by Jennifer Daub, and are maintained by Mark Blaxter.

The Edinburgh Tardoigrade project involves / has involved:

Mark Blaxter PI

Jennifer Daub - Research Asisstant (genomics and informatics) currently working at the Roslin Institute, Edinburgh

Habib Maroon - Research Assistant (developmental biology and genetics)

Fran Thomas - Research Technician (culture, diversity and genomics)

Claire Whitton - Research Assistant (genomics)

Aziz Aboobaker - Research Assistant (developmental genetics) currently working in Berkley, California USA

 

assisted by the following undergraduate project students:

Jenna Mann, Ben Elsworth, Keith Allen, Mark Welsh