Updates


December 2006:
  • Updated website. Several sections were added, including Source Code Download and Result Files.
  • Two new species of fish, Stickleback and Japanese rice fish were compared. The results are available in the Result Files section.

Fall 2006:
  • The manuscript was submitted for journal reviews.

Summer 2006:
  • Gong Zhang, another summer student of Guoqing, was hired to continue Fred's work. Gong optimized the scripts in two ways:
    • Gong's script can calculate coverage, which is an effective parameter for filtering exons of duplicated genes.
    • Gong's scripts produce a tablular output, with GC-contents.

Spring 2006:
  • Writing the manuscript and performing data analysis. Guoqing presented the result in the First International Conference on Phylogenomics. March 16-19, 2006. Sainte-Adele, Quebec, Canada.

November 2005:
  • Guoqing received the UNO UCR First Award to work on this project.

Fall 2005:
  • Sequencing more candidate markers on more fish.
  • Regular meetings on Saturday between Chenhong and Guoqing discussing how to analyze data and how to write the manuscript.

Summer 2005:
  • Fred Potmesil, a summer student of Guoqing, wrote several scripts for filtering single-copy orthologs between Zebrafish and Fugu. The script used bit scores for filtering exons of duplicated genes.
  • Later it was found it was not an ideal parameter for duplicated gene removal.
  • Chenhong tested a set of candidate markers and the sequence data produced was encouraging.

Fall 2004:
  • Project began. Chenhong and Guoqing initiated this project.