About Eu-Sol
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An introduction to the aims of EU-SOL and how we plan to achieve them. Plus read about the organisations and people working on this project.
GB: Imperial College London
The imposing Queens Tower
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Location: London, England
About Us
Imperial College is ranked the fifth best university in the world (Times Higher QS World University Rankings 2007).
The College has three faculties namely Science, Engineering and Medicine with research in all areas being world class and world leading. At the same time Imperial College is committed to excellence in teaching at all levels.
ICL and Eu-Sol
Imperial College’s role in EU-SOL is falls into two major areas.
- Provide leadership in the sequencing of one of tomato’s twelve chromosomes (chromosome 4). Work-package 5.
- To perform computational analysis of the sequence output such that it can reach the public domain in an easily viewable format. Work-package 6.
Work-package 5 - EU-SOL is supporting UK’s national sequencing programme and at Imperial College we are leading UK’s national sequencing effort. Currently the sequencing of tomato chromosome 4 is being carried out at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute with data being released automatically to the public domain.
Work-package 6 - At Imperial we have excellent computing facilities and experience in using these facilities to answer questions in biology. This expertise is being put to use in the annotation of tomato sequence output. UK’s role in this process is to utilise the high compute capacity to carry out analysis that requires such capacity and that would be difficult to achieve elsewhere. This work is being carried out under the International Tomato Annotation Group (ITAG) consortium that is made up of many EU-SOL and worldwide members.
Staff (working on EU-SOL)
- Gerard Bishop
- Sarah Butcher
- Daniel Buchan
