Sorry about the previous duff posting!
As part of our contribution to the Schistosoma genome project, we will be
placing genome project and related data on the Natural History Museum's
gopher server. In time we hope that this data (plus images) will also be
accessable through the Museum's WWW server.
Due to other committments, construction of this server is very much a
"spare time" (Ha-Ha) occupation. This means that, with the exception of DNA
sequences, we do not have the time to go hunting out the data to put
on the server. We need your assistance and contributions to make
this server a valuable reference/contact point for the Schisto
community.
We are looking for data under the following categories:
(1) SCHISTOSOME RESEARCH LABORATORIES AND PERSONNEL
LAB TITLE:
DEPARTMENT:
INSTITUTION:
ADDRESS:
NAME OF LABORATORY HEAD:
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
TEL:
FAX:
EMAIL:
NAME OF RESEARCHER #1:
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
TEL:
FAX:
EMAIL: etc.
(2) SPECIES AND STRAINS
for Schistosoma, snails and other schistosomes:
SPECIES:
STRAIN:
GEOGRAPHICAL ORIGIN:
DATE ISOLATED:
LABORATORY INTERMEDIATE HOST SPECIES:
LABORATORY INTERMEDIATE HOST STRAIN:
LABORATORY DEFINITIVE HOST SPECIES:
LABORATORY DEFINITIVE HOST STRAIN:
LIVE OR FROZEN COLLECTION:
HOLDING LABORATORY:
CONTACT NAME:
COMMENTS:
(3) SEQUENCE DATA (we will obtain these)
NON EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG SEQUENCES
EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG SEQUENCES
(4) LIBRARIES
SOURCE SPECIES:
STAGE OF LIFE CYCLE:
TYPE: genomic, cDNA etc
VECTOR/CLONING SITE:
HOST STRAIN:
HOLDING LABORATORY:
CONTACT NAME:
NOTES:
(5) PHYSICAL MAPPING DATA
EST-YAC HYBRIDISATION DATA
DBEST ACCESSION NUMBER OF EST:
PUTATIVE IDENTITY:
IDENTIFICATION NUMBER(S) OF YAC(S) IT HYBRIDISES TO:
RESEARCHER MAKING ASSIGNMENT:
NOTES:
YAC-CHROMOSOME HYBRIDISATION DATA
IDENTIFICATION NUMBER OF YAC:
CHROMOSOME NUMBER:
POSITION ON CHROMOSOME:
RESEARCHER MAKING ASSIGNMENT:
NOTES:
(6) SCHISTOSOMA RELATED TECHNIQUES
PARASITOLOGICAL
CULTURAL
BIOCHEMICAL
MOLECULAR
MICROSCOPAL
OTHER
Please send any information you wish to share with the Schisto Research
Community by letter, fax or (preferably) eMail to:
D. A. Johnston
Experimental Taxonomy,
Dept. of Zoology,
The Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road
London
SW7 5BD
United Kingdom
tel (from outside UK) 44 71 9399297, from within UK: 0171 9389297
fax (from outside UK) 44 71 9388754, from within UK: 0171 9388754
eMail daj at nhm.acd.uk
Please cudgel, bully, blackmail or otherwise coerce your collegues
to do the same and feel free to make comments, suggestions for how this
service could be improved. We hope to go online in about a month from now.
Many thanks
DAJ
David A. Johnston
Research Fellow,
Dept of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road,
South Kensington, London SW7 5BD. England
(tel 071 9389297, fax 071 9388754, email daj at nhm.ac.uk)
