Chromatin accessibility dynamics across C. elegans development and ageing

The work was supported by Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowships to JA (054523 and 101863), a Wellcome Trust PhD fellowship to JJ (097679), a Sir Robert Edwards Scholarship from Churchill College, an English Speaking Union Graduate Scholarship, and funding from the Cambridge Trust to MS, a Medical Research Council DTP studentship to JS, and a Thouron award to CW. This study was also supported by the European Sequencing and Genotyping Infrastructure (funded by the EC, FP7/2007-2013) under Grant Agreement 26205 (ESGI) as part of the transnational access program. We thank Drs. Hans Lehrach and Marie-Laure Yaspo for generous support of the ESGI project, Dr. Marc Sultan for setting up sequencing technology platforms, and Mathias Linser and the rest of the sequencing team of the Department of Vertebrate Genomics at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics for technical assistance. We also acknowledge core support from the Wellcome Trust (092096) and Cancer Research UK (C6946/A14492).