Infrastructure Needs
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The organizing committee has identified several areas that would facilitate research on this model organism.  Some of these goals require immediate attention while others can be fulfilled in the future.

  • The unique advantages of this organism for genetic studies of important cell biological processes are clear.  The community of 600 researchers eagerly invites collaboration in order to accelerate research in several fields.  We hope the NIH initiative will encourage more new investigators to utilize the system.
  • Expansion of the Web Server is the most immediate requirement of the community.  This invaluable resource is currently run on a volunteer basis by several principal investigators.  They need technical support to accommodate the increasing amounts of information to be posted.
  • Microarray technology is extremely useful for characterization of mutant phenotypes and needs to be increasingly supported as the genome sequence is completed.
  • A stock center will be needed as new investigators join the field and request mutant strains for their research.
  • Support for shotgun sequencing of the six physically isolated chromosomes has been provided by the NIH, the European Union, and the German DFG.  Further support will be necessary for the finishing steps necessary to generate complete coverage of the 34 Mb genome.