modENCODE home

RESOURCES

Browse Genomes
modENCODE-mine
TF Priority List
Protocols
Reagents
WIKI [restricted access] 
Data Coordinating Center
Contact us
Home

PROJECTS

C. elegans
The Transcriptome
Chromatin Function
Histone Variants
Regulatory Elements
The 3' UTRome
D. melanogaster
The Transcriptome
Regulatory Elements
Chromosomal Proteins
Small and microRNAs
Origins of Replication

EXTERNAL LINKS

modENCODE@NHGRI
FlyBase
WormBase
FlyMine
Browse Genomes: C.elegans D.melanogaster mine modENCODE: query!!
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) model organism ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements (modENCODE) Project will try to identify all of the sequence-based functional elements in the Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila melanogaster genomes. The project is run as a Research Network and data is publicly available on its modENCODE-mine data warehouse.
This site is maintained by the modENCODE Data Coordination Center.
For comments, problems, requests and general information about the project please contact us at our help desk.

News and Notes

  • April 2-6, 2008: 49th Annual Drosophila Research Conference
    The modENCODE consortium gave some presentations at the conference in San Diego, California. They are available here.

  • January 28, 2008: First release of modENCODE-mine
    The data warehouse for the modENCODE project is available at [ http://intermine.modencode.org/query/ ], containing basic genetic data for Drosophila and C. Elegans.

  • November 6, 2007: New data in the Genome Browsers
    Selected expression-related tracks from WormBase, FlyBase have been added to the modENCODE worm and fly genome browsers. Some new features include EST tracks, whole genome tiling array data from Manak JR, et al. Nature Genet. 2006 Oct;38(10):1151-8 and new gene predictions for C. elegans. If would like to have additional data imported from Worm/FlyBase or other sources, please let us know.

  • September 18, 2007: Transcription Factor Genes for modENCODE
    Input from the C. elegans and Drosophila research communities is sought in order to help choose which transcription factor to focus on for analysis in modENCODE projects, please visit the TF voting page for more information.

Job Opportunities

April 21, 2008: software engineer (1) and data curator (1)
The Stein Lab at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research is recruiting a software engineer and a data curator in support of the modENCODE Data Coordinating Center. The ideal candidate for the developer position will be Bachelors or Masters-level biologist or computer scientist with significant experience in biological databases and production-quality software development.  The data curator should have a Masters degree or Phd in a the life sciences, experience with high volume functional genomics data, common bioinformatics tools, and some programming. A background in C. elegans or D. melanogaster biology or genetics would be a plus.  These positions are based in Toronto, Canada.  Please contact Lincoln Stein <lstein@cshl.edu> for more information.