The living world is divided into three domains : Bacteria, Archeae and Eucarya. The most hyperthermophilic organisms are found in the Archeae.

As its first main sequencing project, Genoscope has chosen the genome of Pyrococcus abyssi, a microbe isolated from samples taken close to a hot spring situated 3500 meters deep in the south-east Pacific, and for which optimal growth conditions are 103 °C and 200 atmospheres pressure.

This project is performed in collaboration with teams from :

• Daniel Prieur (CNRS, Roscoff, France)
• Patrick Forterre (Université d'Orsay, France)
• Jean-Claude Thierry (IGBMC, Strasbourg, France)
• Jacques Dietrich (IFREMER, Brest,France)

• Download here the complete sequence of Pyrococcus abyssi (fasta format).
• Download here the complete sequence of Pyrococcus abyssi (EMBL format, AC=AL096836) -- warning : more than 3.5 Mo ! --.
• Download here Pyrococcus abyssi gene sequences (fasta format).
• Download here the amino acid sequences of Pyrococcus abyssi genes (fasta format).
• Access to the Pyrococcus abyssi database.