Babesia microti

Whole genome shotgun

Project: Collaboratif
State of the project: En cours

The first genome of a Piroplasmid responsible for human babesiosis

Collaborations :

ERT 1038 “Vaccination Antiparasitaire”
Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire
15 Avenue Charles Flahault - BP 14491
34083 Montpellier Cedex 5, France

Equipe de Parasitologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire
Laboratoire de Biologie des Protistes
UMR CNRS 6023
Université Blaise Pascal
63177 Aubière Cedex, France

Genoscope is undertaking the sequencing of the complete genome of Babesia microti, estimated at 5.2 Mb.
The genome will be sequenced at a depth of 12X, using three libraries:

a 3 kb insert library cloned in the multicopy plasmid vector pcdna2.1,
a 10 kb insert library in the pCNS plasmid vector (small copy number)
and a miniBAC library ( 30kb inserts) in the pBeloBAC11 vector.

Shotgun sequencing should produce about 100,000 reads.

Contacts:
Patrick Wincker (Genoscope) - Eric Précigout (Montpellier I University)

Last update on 15 January 2008

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