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Frontiers in Genomics: Insights into Protist Evolutionary Biology, University of Iowa, May 19–21, 2004
Author(s) -
BHATTACHARYA DEBASHISH,
KATZ LAURA A.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of eukaryotic microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.067
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1550-7408
pISSN - 1066-5234
DOI - 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2005.05-3355.x
Subject(s) - protist , biology , genomics , genome biology , eukaryote , tree of life (biology) , evolutionary biology , genome , computational biology , data science , phylogenetics , genetics , gene , computer science
. Protists constitute the bulk of eukaryotic diversity yet their genomes remain relatively unexplored. To address this issue, a workshop entitled, “Frontiers in Genomics: Insights into Protist Evolutionary Biology”, was convened at the University of Iowa on June 19–21, 2004. The specific aims of the workshop were to define the role of genomics in the eukaryotic tree of life, to identify challenges in characterizing protist (i.e. microbial eukaryote) genomes, and in proposing specific solutions to these challenges. The findings of the workshop are presented here and in a white paper that provide a set of guidelines for organizing the protist community and for planning and executing a protist genome project.