title: Frontiers in genomics: insights into protist evolutionary biology, University of Iowa, May 19-21, 2004.
abstract: Protists constitute the bulk of eukaryotic diversity yet their genomes remain relatively unexplored. To address this issue, a workshop entitled, "Frontiers in Genomics: Insights into Protist Evolutionary Biology", was convened at the University of Iowa on June 19-21, 2004. The specific aims of the workshop were to define the role of genomics in the eukaryotic tree of life, to identify challenges in characterizing protist (i.e. microbial eukaryote) genomes, and in proposing specific solutions to these challenges. The findings of the workshop are presented here and in a white paper that provide a set of guidelines for organizing the protist community and for planning and executing a protist genome project.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences and Roy J. Carver Center for Comparative Genomics, 312 Biology Building, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA. debashi-bhattachary@uiowa.edu
authors.forename: Debashish
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bhattacharya
authors.forename: Laura A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Katz
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D056890:Eukaryota / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics; D005057:Eukaryotic Cells; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D020224:Expressed Sequence Tags; D023281:Genomics; D012107:Research Design