Bioinformatics of the sugarcane EST Project - SUCEST

• Grant number: 99/02837-6
• Support Opportunities: Genome Research Grants
• Start date: June 01, 1999
• End date: June 30, 2002
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Computer Science
• Principal Investigator: João Meidanis
• Grantee: João Meidanis
• Host Institution: Instituto de Computação (IC). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

In this report we present the activities performed by our group in the Sugarcane EST Project (SUCEST), during the period from July 2000 to June 2001. A summary of the main facts and activities follows: 1) change in team composition; 2) migration of data and services to new machine; 3) project ended its data submission phase; 4) comparison to other genomes; 5) categorization of our ESTs; 6) a new clustering procedure; 7) project-related papers generated by the team. The rest of the report is organized as follows. A brief history of the project appears in section 2. A detailed account of the activities in the given in section 3. A list of current team members appears in section 4. Finally, section 5 describes the future plans for the project. (AU)