We really need the knockout urgently, can our gene prioritised?
Every gene request is important to someone. If you require a gene knocked out urgently we would usually advise that you also make the deletion libraries and screen them yourself. Protocols and guidelines as provided by Gary Moulder and Bob Barstead are available here. Members of the consortium will of course be willing to give you any additional advice you may need. Also, if you do independently derive an allele it would be good to let us know so we can take the gene off the immediate knockout list (the inference being that this allele would at some point find its way to the CGC stock centre or otherwise be publicly available due to publication).
