Agenda for the November 2000 meeting of the Aspergillus fumigatus genome sequencing project

Complete minutes of the meeting

Wednesday 15th November

The Aspergillus fumigatus genome sequencing project.

Morning: 9am start

Progress reports and proposed plans about the genome sequencing

1) Welcome and Introduction: D Denning

2) Progress report on the pilot project: M Quail

3) Progress report from the Pasteur: F Kunst

4) Karyotype progress report: P Magee

Coffee 10:15 to 10:45

5) The NIH funded TIGR project: D Dixon, T Feldblyum

6) The Spanish project: C Vazquez, J Arroyo

7) General discussion

Lunch 12:30 to 13:30

8) Closed session of the sequencers

Dinner 20:00

Thursday 16th November

Annotating genome projects and naming genes

Morning: 8:30 start

Annotation: fungi

1) The Sanger S. pombe project: M-A Rajendream

2) Data release policy at the Sanger: N Hall

3) Comments about annotation: O White

4) The Neurospora crassa project: M Sachs, J Galagan, C Staben

5) The Proteome protein databases: M Costanzo

Coffee 10:15 to 10:45

Annotation: general aspects

1) An approach to community based genome annotation: the Pseudomonas example: F Brinkman

2)Tools for function prediction: T Attwood

Lunch 12:00 to 13:00

Afternoon 13:00 to 16:00

Round table discussion

1) The naming of new genes in A. fumigatus: M Anderson,  J Bennett