Schematic representation of the PAGE objectives.
Given the socio-economic impact of plant and animals and the recent explosion of worldwide sequencing capacity, it is essential to develop tools to handle what will become a massive amount of information from sequenced genomes.
The current project aims at developing tools to compare genomes to gain insight into plant and animal genome evolution since their common ancestors in terms of genome organisation (gene and repeated sequences) and the development of applicable tools for translational genomics purposes, i.e. transferring information (candidate genes, molecular markers) from sequenced genomes to yet non-sequenced complex ones, especially for genetic/physical mapping and future genome sequencing. The PAGE program will develop resources and approaches in comparative genomics and deliver publicly applicable tools for the scientific community.
Duration: 01/11/2011 to 31/10/2015
Coordinator: Jérome Salse
The program involves 6 French academic partners from INRA (4 research groups) and CNRS (2 research groups) recognized through their publication records and ongoing collaborations as pioneers and major scientific groups in the field of plant and animal evolutionary genomics.
Partner 1 - UMR 1095, group GDEC, INRA Clermont-Ferrand. Resp. Jérome Salse
Partner 2 – CNRS UMR8197, Group IBENS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. Resp.Hugues Roest Crollius
Partner 3 – UPR INRA 1164, Unité de Recherche en Génomique-Info (URGI), INRA, Versailles. Resp.Hadi Quesneville
Partner 4 – Laboratoire de génétique cellulaire, INRA, Toulouse. Resp.Thomas Faraut
Partner 5 - Laboratoire Génome et Développement des Plantes, CNRS Perpignan. Resp.Richard Cooke
Partner 6 - Centre National en Ressources Génomiques Végétales, INRA Toulouse. Resp. Hélène Bergès