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NCBI
databases
: 55767 nucleotide (54309 ESTs)/1 genome/650 protein entries
Genome
Project 12879: 265,503 records (WGS/EST/454/BES)
in the trace archives
Short
Read Archive (SRA):
454 data projects: 23 Gbases gDNA, 714 Mbases cDNA
Introduction
-An international
consortium has successfully pursued the development of an internationally
supported a molluscan genome project, one that is focused mainly on
the freshwater gastropod Biomphalaria glabrata. No one
research group has seized control of this project. For this project
to succeed, it is necessary to remain a viable, interactive consortium.
It is important that scientists from both developed and developing countries
step forward to support this initiative.
-This
site provides information on design, management and progress of this
initiative. Currently, the consortium encourages investigators to pursue
external funding available at the national level, towards hypothesis-driven
research projects that include a gene discovery component. Individual research
groups may combine efforts in national and international settings to apply
for large scale resources such as funding for exchange of information and
investigators, production of BAC libraries, and sequencing capacity.
-The sequences
generated as part of the consortium effort will be released to public
databases in a timely fashion.
News
(also see links below)
- October 2002: Prioritization for BAC library publicly
posted (look under snail) by NHGRI
- September 2003: Genome size for
Biomphalaria glabrata published (check link
below)
- January 2004: Mitochondrial genome
sequence of Biomphalaria glabrata completed
- August 2004:
High quality BAC library (BG-BBa) available at
cost from Arizona
Genomics Institute
- August 2004: Biomphalaria glabrata
prioritized as genomic
sequencing target by NHGRI
- November 2004: 17,706 trace records (raw
single-pass reads of DNA) contributed by WUGSC
- September 2005: Biomphalaria
glabrata genome joint meeting with filarial/schistosome
genome networks
- October 2005: Planning meeting for sequencing
strategy at WUGSC, St. Louis MO
- January 2006: Over 46,000 nucleotide database
entries for Biomphalaria glabrata
- January 2007: RNA, DNA template from selfed
BB02 provided to initiate sequencing at WUGSC
- November 2007: Biomphalaria
glabrata genome
project progress meeting at ASTMH 2007
- February 2009: WUGSC releases
sequence data from several BACs to NCBI
- February 2009: WUGSC 454 GS FLX cDNA data
(184.6M
bases) in NCBI Short Read Archive (SRA)
- July 2009: WUGSC LS454 gDNA data (17.1Gbases)
in NCBI SRA
- September 2009 WUGSC LS454 paired end gDNA
data (6Gbases), > 23x
coverage in NCBI SRA
- SnailDB,
Biomphalaria glabrata database, BLAST-able
set of clustered ESTs online
Details and
additional information
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