Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

CG-ALCODE

The title of the project is “Comparative Genomics for the analysis of gene structure evolution: ALternative CODing in Eukaryote genes through alternative splicing, transcription, and translation.”. The project involves partners from EPI Bonsai and from the Université du Québec À Montréal (UQÀM, Canada), from year 2014 to year 2017 (see also: http://thales.math.uqam.ca/~cgalcode/ ).

The aim of this Associated Team is the development of comparative genomics models and methods for the analysis of eukaryotes gene structure evolution. The goal is to answer very important questions arising from recent discoveries on the major role played by alternative transcription, splicing, and translation, in the functional diversification of eukaryote genes.

• Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark: Collaboration with Tilmann Weber on nonribosomal peptides.

• Computational Biology Research Center, Tokyo: Collaboration with Martin C. Frith on transition spaced seeds [3] .

• Department of Statistics of the North Carolina State University (Raleigh): Collaboration with Donald E.K. Martin one spaced seeds coverage [6] .

• Institut für Biophysik und physikalische Biochemie', University of Regensburg: Collaboration with Rainer Merkl on ancestral sequence inference and synthesis.

• University of Bielefeld: Collaboration with Robert Giegerich on RNA bioinformatics [4] .