<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi Everyone (apologies for cross-posting)</div><div><br></div><div>This is just an update on progress on the genome. For those of you not at the recent meeting, we now have around 20x coverage of the H. melpomene melpomene genome (6.7Gb), and are working to improve the assembly. We had a call with Baylor last week and they have now obtained the first sequence for the 8kb paired-end library. A further run from this library will be available in a few weeks. A lane of Illumina sequence for the same strain is also in the pipeline. Thus, we hope to have a new version of the genome assembly in about a month.</div><div><br></div><div><div>We also talked about the issue of publication. There is a general agreement among everyone I have spoken to that we need to 'save' the juicy biological analyses that the genome sequence facilitates for the main genome paper. This would include things like RAD mapping of novel wing patterning genes, genome-scale analysis of molecular evolution, RAD population genomics, QTL RAD tag mapping of other traits (these are just the projects that I know about). This is not to say that such analyses have to be fully included in the headline genome paper, but rather that we would need to find a way to split up the results so that nuggets can go into the genome paper while the complete results are in a companion paper first authored by whoever did the work. </div><div><br></div><div>The downside is that some may have to wait on publication of data while the main paper gets sorted - but the onus is on all of us to complete our contributions to the main paper and ensure that this isnt an issue. The upside is that, I think if we take this approach we can be pretty confident of a high impact paper that we can all be proud of. </div><div><br></div><div>I am hoping that we can all agree to this now, to avoid any conflicts of interest down the line.</div><div><br></div><div>If there is anyone out there who is currently not part of the consortium, but who would like to use the genome data then please let me know. We are open to anybody working on the data provided it doesnt overlap with projects underway in the labs of those who have contributed money!</div><div><br></div><div>All the best</div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<</div><div>Chris Jiggins</div><div>Department of Zoology</div><div>University of Cambridge</div><div>Tel: (+44)(0)1223 769021</div><div><a href="http://www.heliconius.org/">http://www.heliconius.org/</a></div><div><a href="http://heliconius.zoo.cam.ac.uk/">http://heliconius.zoo.cam.ac.uk/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Fellow of St John's College, </div><div>Cambridge, UK. 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