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"Model organisms represent only a small fraction of the biodiversity that exists on Earth, although the research that has resulted from their study forms the core of biological knowledge. Historically, research communities — often in isolation from one another — have focused on these model organisms to gain an insight into the general principles that underlie various disciplines, such as genetics, development and evolution. This has changed in recent years with the availability of complete genome sequences from many model organisms, which has greatly facilitated comparisons between the different species and increased interactions among organism-based research communities. All fields have benefited from these advances, including evolutionary biology, in which the surge in molecular data has greatly clarified estimates of phylogenetic relationships and divergence times among taxa" ^(Pubmed)

The number of model organisms has grown in concert with the increasing number of genome-sequencing projects. For this, GBrowse.org project goal is create the net among official MOD sites, data and curators about each model organism. You could browse into each model organism informations and data downloadble with Genome section. Any further informations about actual GBrowse.org contents, you could look Help:Contents.

GBrowse.org is created to facilitate use about GMOD tools as bioinformatic utility to browse, download, query genome annotated data and to team up with labs that have not got one's own server or bioinformatics operators.

Contributing

Lincoln Stein, S. pombe Genome Project, S. cerevisiae Genome Database, C. albicans Genome Database and Berkeley Bioinformatics Ontology Project were first to divulge GBrowse.org project and supply GBrowse.org with GBrowse datae download page links. Now, there are more people they are making better sequencing and annotation informations directly into model organism wiki page or simply by email.