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genome projects: Fugu rubripes

Prominent Genome Projects: Fugu rubripes
In 1989 Sydney Brenner, along with his colleagues Greg Elgar, Samuel Aparicio, and Byrappa Venkatesh established F. rubripes as a model organism for genomics. Although, the genome of the puffer fish contains essentially the same gene repertoire as the human genome, its size is only one eighth the size of the human genome. After realizing the value of the Fugu genome, the International Fugu Genome Consortium was formed in November 2000. The consortium which sequenced the puffer fish genome (draft sequence which covered about 95% of the genome) in less than a year was led by the US Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute, and the Singapore Biomedical Research Council’s Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology. Also part of the consortium are the MRC UK Human Genome Mapping Resource Center, the Cambridge University Department of Oncology, and the Institute for Systems Biology. The sequencing efforts of the consortium were bolstered by Celera Genomics and Myriad Genetics, Inc.