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]