Master in Agricultural and Applied Biological Sciences, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium (1998)
Graduation Subjects:
bioinformatics, general genomic resources, sequence analysis
Supervisors:
Prof. Martien Groenen Prof. Martien Groenen
CoOperators:
Financer:
STW
Start date:
01 December 2001
End date:
31 December 2004
Introduction:
This project is part of the international Chicken Genome Project. The aim is to build basic genomic resources for chicken, as has been done previously for human, mouse, rat and other species.
Results:
Recently, the following resources have been made available: * a whole-genome DNA sequence (see websites NCBI, Ensembl, UCSC) * a whole-genome physical (clone-contig) map (see http://www.animalsciences.nl/ChickFPC) * a SNP resource containing 2.8 million SNPs
Articles:
-Aerts et al Integration of chicken genomic resources to enable whole-genome sequencing. Cytogenet Genome Res 102:297-303 (2004) -Aerts et al POSA: perl objects for DNA sequencing data analysis. BMC Genomics 5:60 (2004) -Hillier et al Sequencing and comparative analysis of the chicken genome. Nature submitted (2004) -Wallis et al A physical map of the chicken genome. Nature submitted (2004)
Graduation date:
16 September 2005
Graduation time and place:
13:30 at the Aula
Title thesis:
Chicken genome mapping: constructing part of a roadmap for mining this bird's DNA
