This web site is the home for genomic information on echinoderms. It either hosts or will soon host sequence and annotation data for species from all of the eleutherozoan echinoderms (sea urchins, sea stars, brittle stars and sea cucumbers). The primary source of sequence data is the ongoing sequencing efforts from Baylor College of Medicine, Human Genome Sequencing Center. Other sources include smaller sequencing projects from individual laboratories. We try to limit as our data sources as much as possible to those archived at Genbank. The information system residing here attempts to provide up-to-date information on genomes, genes and annotations for the use of the experimental scientists. It is our policy to post new sequence information in a timely way as well as insuring the primary datasets we use are archived at Genbank and other public data sites. ... [Information of the supplier]
This web site is the home of the Sea Urchin Genome Database. The first release in Spring 2008 contains the sequence data from the latest genomic assembly and the accumulation of annotations prepared for the initial genome publications. Useful information from the old SUGP web site and data collections are included here. This web site supercedes the Sea Urchin Genome Project, a web site that included a set of research materials and information assembled to support genome level activities in the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus and allied species. These organisms are primarily used as research models in developmental biology, cell biology, gene regulation molecular biology, evolutionary biology, metabolic biochemistry and marine biology. All curated sequences are posted to Genbank at NCBI. ... [Information of the supplier]