Mark Blaxter's teaching pages

Sequencing the C. elegans genome

The clone-by-clone sequencing strategy

Who sequenced the genome?

Statistics of the genome sequence

The sequencing was a team effort

The authors of the 1998 Science paper were as follows:

The Sanger Centre, UK

Rachael Ainscough, Simon Bardill, Karen Barlow, Victoria Basham, Caroline Baynes, Lisa Beard, Alastair Beasley, Mary Berks, James Bonfield, Jacqueline Brown, Christine Burrows, John Burton, Connie Chui, Emma Clark, Louise Clark, Gerard Colville, Theresa Copsey, Amanda Cottage, Alan Coulson, Molly Craxton, Auli Cummings, Paul Cummings, Simon Dear, Thomas Dibling, Richard Dobson, Jonathan Doggett, Richard Durbin, Jillian Durham, Andrew Ellington, David Evans, Kerry Fleming, John Fowler, Debbie Frame, Audrey Fraser, Alison Gardner, Jane Garnett, Iain Gray, Jane Gregory, Mark Griffiths, Sarah Hall, Barbara Harris, Trevor Hawkins, Cathy Hembry, Sarah Holmes, Bijay Jassal, Matt Jones, Steve Jones, Ann Joy, Paul Kelly, Joanna Kershaw, Andrew Kimberley, Yuji Kohara, Neil Laister, Dan Lawson, Nicola Lennard, Julia Lightning, Simon Limbrey, Sarah Lindsay, Christine Lloyd, Simon Margerison, Anna Marrone, Lucy Matthews, Paul Matthews, Rebecca Mayes, Kirsten McLay, Amanda McMurray, Mark Metzstein, Simon Miles, Nicholas Mills, Maryam Mohammadi, Beverley Mortimore, Mary O'Callaghan, Anthony Osborn, Sophie Palmer, Chantal Percy, Adelaide Pettett, Emma Playford, Michelle Pound, Rebecca Rocheford, Jane Rogers, David Saunders, Maggie Searle, Katherine Seeger, Ratna Shownkeen, Matthew Sims, Nicola Smaldon, Andrew Smith, Michelle Smith, Mike Smith, Rebekah Smye, Erik Sonnhammer, Rodger Staden, Charles Steward, John Sulston, June Swinburne, Ruth Taylor, Louise Tee, Jean Thierry-Mieg, Karen Thomas, Jeanette Usher, Mellanie Wall, Justine Wallis, Andy Watson, Sarah White, Anna Wild, Jane Wilkinson, Leanne Williams, Jenny Winster, Isabel Wragg  

The Genome Sequencing Center, St. Louis, USA  

Amanda Abbott, Jane Abu-Threideh, Craig Ahrens, Ella Alexander, Johar Ali, Mark Ames, Kirsten Anderson, Stephanie Andrews, Susanna Angell, Paul Antonacci, Lucinda Antonacci-Fulton, Bessie Antoniou, Damon Baisden, Lilla Bartko, Shiv Basu, Chris Bauer, Cathy Beck, Michael Becker, Louis Begnel, Kirk Behymer, Gary Bemis, Dan Bentley, Zachary Bevins, Thomas Biewald, Linda Blackwood, Donald Blair, Mary Blanchard, Mary Blandford, Elizabeth Boatright, Sherell Bourne, Kyle Bova, Holland Bradshaw, Ryan Brinkman, Rose Brockhouse, Michelle Broy, Christina Budnicki, Jennifer Burkhart, Tracy Caffrey, Kelly Carpenter, Tim Carter, Brandi Chiapelli, Asif Chinwalla, Stephanie Chissoe, Kathleen Clarke, Sandy Clifton, Jim Cloud, Molly Cofman, Megan Connell, Mark Cook, Judy Cooper, Matt Cooper, Matthew Cordes, Marc Cotton, Jennifer Couch, Laura Courtney, Krista Creason, Robin Crocker, Jye'Mon Crockett, Taquilla Crum, Michael Dante, Betty Darron, Ruth Davenport, Michelle David, Sharon Davidson, Teresa Davidson, Shanoa Davis, Andy Delehaunty, Sandy Dempsey, Jasna Despot, Hong Ding, Maggie Dotson, Kristy Drone, Hui Du, Zijin Du, Chad Dubbelde, Treasa DuBuque, Grant Duckels, Sean Eddy, Jennifer Edwards, Glendoria Elliott, Efrem Exum, Anthony Favello, Ginger Fewell, Tanya Fiedler, Lisa Flagg, William Fronick, Bob Fulton, Tony Gaige, Stacie Gattung, Cynthia Geisel, Steve Geisel, Alicia Gibson, Candi Giddings, Barbara Gillam, Warren Gish, Danielle Glossip, Jennifer Godfrey, Deepa Goela, Norma Goins, Tina Graves, Tracie Greco, Phil Green, Serena Gregory, William Haakenson, Priscilla Hale, Charles Harkins, Gwen Harmon, Mark Harper, Anthony Harris, Michelle Harrison, James Hawkins, Maria Hawkins, Clay Hawryszko, Chuck Heidbrink, John Henkhaus, LaDeana Hillier, Kurt Hinds, Michael Holman, Andrea Holmes, Donna Hopson, Melisa Hotic, Monica Hultman, Ann Jacobs, Craig Jenkins, Mohamed Jier, Doug Johnson, Mark Johnston, Brenda Jones, Kimberly Jones, Paula Kassos, Kimberly Keen, Jennifer Kellen, Kimberley Kemp, Deana Keppler, Amy Kerstetter, Melissa Ketterman, Kyung Kim, Mark King, Jennifer Kirsten, Bill Klinke, Jeremy Kock, Sara Kohlberg, Ian Korf, Amy Kozlowicz, Jason Kramer, Rebecca Krauss, Tamara Kucaba, Michelle Lacy, Thomas Lakanen, Betty Lamar, Yvonne Langston, Yvonne LaPlant, John Latreille, Daniel Layman, Thomas Le, Thuy-Tien Le, Tri-Tin Le, John Ledwith, Lynn Lehnert, Darcy Leimbach, Sarah Lennox, Shawn Leonard, Lili Li, Paul Lowery, Terrie Lynch, Chris Macri, Len Maggi, Maggie Maher, Elaine Mardis, Marco Marra, Gabor Marth, John Martin, Rachel Maupin, Ken McDonald, Ramonna McDonald, Rebecca McGrane, Kelly Mead, Becky Meininger, Sandra Menezes, Brian Merry, Rebecca Miko, Kevin Miller, Nancy Miller, Walt Miller, Brian Minges, Patrick Minx, Tonya Modde, Bradley Moore, Matthew Morris, Garrett Mullen, Molly Mullen, Jennifer Murray, Diane Nelson, Joanne Nelson, Amy Nguyen, Christine Nguyen, Nham Nhan, Susan Nichols, Laura Niemann, David O'Brien, Darla O'Neal, Ben Oberkfell, Amy Ozanich, Philip Ozersky, Dimitrios Panussis, Kimberly Pape, Jeremy Parsons, Adele Pauley, Charlene Pearman, Dale Peluso, Kymberlie Pepin, Denise Peterson, Amy Phillips, Craig Pohl, Faye Prevedell, Tim Raichle, Jennifer Randall, Mary Reynolds, Carrie Rhine, Lorrie Rice, Joanne Rieff, Lisa Rifkin, Linda Riles, Judy Robertson, Kerry Robinson, David Rohleder, Tracy Rohlfing, Chris Rose, Ellen Ryan, Laura Sammons, Brent Sandberg, Jill Sansone, Lisa Sapetti, Mark Schaller, Carrie Schaus, Paul Scheet, Emilie Scherger, Ann Schrader, Brian Schultz, Doug Scronce, Shawn Shafer, Kimberly Shih, Arthur Simonyan, Joanne Small, Aimee Smith, Reene Smith, Jackie Snider, Lisa Spalding, John Spieth, Peter, St. Zachary Stacy, David States, Shayla Stein, Laurita Stellyes, Nathan Stitziel, Tamberlyn Stoneking, Cindy Strong, Joe Strong, Catrina Strowmatt, Eric Stuebe, Jessica Stumpf, Veronika Sudnekevich, Carrie Sutterer, Alison Taich, Sameer Talcherkar, Aye Tin-Wollam, Evanne Trevaskis, Susan Tucci, Bradley Twyman, Karen Underwood, Phillip Valencia, Scott Valentine, Mark Vaudin, Kevin Vaughan, Joelle Veizer, Dana Vignati, Caryn Wagner-McPherson, Christopher Walker, Pamela Wamsley, Robert Waterston, Lori Weinstock, Michael Wendl, Rod White, Lori Wilcox, Alma Willis, Curtis Wilson, Richard Wilson, Mark Winkelmann, Jeffrey Woessner, Patricia Wohldmann, Cliff Wollam, Kimberly Woods, Xiaoyun Wu, Shiaw-Pyng Yang, Martin Yoakum, Xiao Zheng, Hui Zhu, Michael Zidanic