croc genomes

The ICGWG has completed a preliminary genome assembly for Alligator mississippiensis.  The effort was complete by ICGWG members R E Green and J St John at UC Santa Cruz. A preliminary assembly is also available for Crocodylus porosus.  Sequencing for was completed by D Ray’s team and the assembly was performed by the Green laboratory at UCSC.  Primary sequencing for Gavialis gangeticus is underway as this report is being written and should be complete in early January, 2012.  We expect a preliminary assembly by mid-January, 2012.

The assemblies for both alligator and crocodile, as well as supporting information and data, are available on the crocgenomes.org ftp server (ftp://ftp.crocgenomes.org/pub/).  We invite the scientific community to access and make use of the draft assemblies and raw read data that we have produced. Any group performing non-genome-scale analyses that are sufficiently independent of the analyses described elsewhere on this site and in the Genome Biology paper are welcome to use these data without restriction. However, as a matter of courtesy and to avoid duplicated effort, we request that competing genome-scale projects or analyses that overlap with the areas stated above disclose their status to the ICGWG consortium (formal inquiries and requests to join the working group should be made to D Ray).