Central data analysis platform for the SPP-1530 consortium

Purpose of the project is the analysis of RNA-seq data in close collaboration with several consortium partners who produce such data sets at a large scale.  This analysis comprises the annotation of genomes, the assembly and annotation of transcriptomes from RNA-seq data, and the quantification of differential expression.   Together with our external partners, we will develop tools and pipelines for the analysis of RNA-seq data in cases where they do not exist or where they are not tailored toward flowering time regulation in higher plants.  Together with our consortium partners, we will establish an iterative process of experiments, predictions, and experimental tests that helps in each iteration to refine the tools and pipelines and to design the next set of experiments, leading to improved predictions in each iteration and to a continuously growing amount of experimentally tested results.