The aims of the e-Fungi project are:

1. To develop a data warehouse that integrates sequence and functional data from multiple fungal sequences in a way that facilitates the systematic study of less well understood species with reference to model organisms with more fully explored functional characteristics.

2. To support comparative functional genomics through the development of libraries of bioinformatics queries and analyses that make use of the warehouse, and which can be combined in different ways to conduct studies of cellular processes, pathogenicity and evolution.

3. To make the warehouse and the analysis libraries available within a service-oriented Grid, both to support efficient evaluation of computationally intensive tasks, and to enable effective integration of these analyses with other web and grid services.

4. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the resulting infrastructure through a series of systematic studies in fungal genomics, including a systematic genome-level analysis of how pathogenicity – the ability to cause disease in an animal or plant host – first arose.