Getting started.
Navigate the menu items above to access all of our resources.
- Find information about available organisms, assemblies and annotations within the 'Organisms' menu.
- Blast your sequence against all available genome, gene and protein data sets.
- Read tutorials to assist with
Joining a project.
Information for annotators:
- Read our annotation guidelines.
- Register for access to the annotation system for the organism(s) you are interested in.
- Contact your community coordinator for more information on how to contribute. Contact information for each community coordinator is available on the respective organism page.
If you have additional data you would like to contribute:
We are interested in providing as much data as possible for all of the species in the i5k Workspace@NAL.
- For transcriptome data, follow our tutorial on mapping and sharing RNA-seq data.
- If you have other types of data contact us to coordinate the best way to share your data with the community.
Would you like the i5k Workspace@NAL to host your genome project?
If you are a project coordinator, contact us to learn more about the requirements for hosting your organism with the i5k Workspace@NAL. We strive to connect emerging communities with existing resources whenever possible, and are currently focusing on organisms that do not have access to genome database resources.
Have any comments or suggestions? Contact us!
About.
The i5k initiative plans to sequence the genomes of 5,000 insect and related arthropod species over the next 5 years. This project will be transformative because it aims to sequence the genomes of all insect species known to be important to worldwide agriculture, food safety, medicine, and energy production; all those used as models in biology; the most abundant in world ecosystems; and representatives in every branch of insect phylogeny so as to achieve a deep understanding of arthropod evolution and phylogeny.
The i5k Workspace@NAL provides genome projects resulting from the i5k initiative with a space to display and share genome assemblies and gene models. In particular, the Workspace is geared towards research groups that do not have the resources to display the genome assembly and its features. For these “orphaned” genomes, we provide:
- A central species website and data repository for each genome project
- Genome feature visualization (JBrowse)
- Genome feature manual annotation (Web Apollo)
- BLAST function to search genome assembly and gene predictions
The portal is designed using GMOD tools, which are open-source and designed specifically to handle and support genomic data.