Project Psyche

Lepidopteran genomes for Europe

Genome curation

Most Lepidoptera genomes assemble well with PacBio HiFi and Hi-C data using automated assembly pipelines. However, there are always some errors that require manual curation and sex chromosomes need to be identified and all chromosomes named. The genome curation team at the Tree of Life Programme (ToL) of the Wellcome Sanger Institute has developed PretextView to perform manual genome curation using Hi-C maps, coverage information, and Merian element painting developed by Charlotte Wright. The ToL team curates the Psyche genomes together with a group of early-career scientists who have been trained by the ToL curators and are actively contributing to the curation of Psyche genomes. Those who are still actively curating genomes are listed below.


Sanger-accredited genome curators

  • Zsófia Fekete, University of Oulu Finland
  • Bulah Chia-hsiang Wu, Biology Centre CAS, Czechia
  • Loukia Spilani, Instituto de Biologia Evolutiva (UPF-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
  • Michal Rindos, Biology Centre CAS, Czechia
  • Valéria Marques, Institute of Evolutionary Biology; Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
  • Josep Lancho Silva, Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE), Barcelona, Spain
  • Eric Toro Delgado, Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE), Barcelona, Spain
  • Mattia Menchetti, Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-UPF), Spain
  • Dominik Schmitz, Student at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
  • Laura Torrado Blanco, Universidade da Coruña, Spain
  • Jakub Opelka, Biology Centre CAS, Institute of Entomology, Czechia
  • Pedro Ribeiro, Biology Center CAS, Institute of Entomology, Czechia
  • Nok Ting Lam (Samuel), University of Oulu, Finland
  • Noémie Hévin, CNRS, Institut des Sciences de l'Évolution de Montpellier, France
  • Héloise Muller, CNRS, France
  • Tinatin Chkhartishvili, Ilia State University, Georgia
  • Claudia Bruschini, University of Florence, Italy
  • Richard Ian Bailey, University of Lodz, Poland
  • Marcin Wiorek, Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
  • Lorenzo Pasquali, Faculty of Biology, University of Bialystok, Poland
  • Milica Zlatkovic, Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environement (ILFE), Serbia
  • Mónica Doblas Bajo, University of Oviedo, Spain
  • Jose Vicente Pérez, Santa Rita Institut Cavanilles de Biodiversitat i Biologia Evolutiva, Universitat de València, Spain
  • Clara Cavalcanti, Botanical Institute of Barcelona, Spain
  • Paula Escuer, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  • Emre Keskin, Ankara University, Turkey
  • Chung-Te (David) Cheng, University of Florida, USA