title: Do echinoderm genomes measure up?
abstract: Echinoderm genome sequences are a corpus of useful information about a clade of animals that serve as research models in fields ranging from marine ecology to cell and developmental biology. Genomic information from echinoids has contributed to insights into the gene interactions that drive the developmental process at the molecular level. Such insights often rely heavily on genomic information and the kinds of questions that can be asked thus depend on the quality of the sequence information. Here we describe the history of echinoderm genomic sequence assembly and present details about the quality of the data obtained. All of the sequence information discussed here is posted on the echinoderm information web system, Echinobase.org.
authors.affiliation: Division of Biology 139-74, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA. Electronic address: acameron@caltech.edu.
authors.forename: R Andrew
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Cameron
authors.affiliation: Division of Biology 139-74, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Parul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kudtarkar
authors.affiliation: Division of Biology 139-74, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Susan M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Gordon
authors.affiliation: Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA; Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Kim C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Worley
authors.affiliation: Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA; Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Richard A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Gibbs
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004447:Echinodermata / Q000235:genetics*; D016678:Genome / Q000235:genetics*; D049674:History, 21st Century; D008957:Models, Genetic; D010802:Phylogeny; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000266:history* / Q000592:standards*; D013045:Species Specificity; D059467:Transcriptome / Q000235:genetics*
keywords: Development; Echinoderms; Echinoids; Genome; Sequence assembly