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Functional annotation and curation of the Eimeria tenella genome

Reference	BBS/E/I/00001036
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Fiona Tomley
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Professor Martin Shirley
Institution	The Pirbright Institute
Department	The Pirbright Institute Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	49,142
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	14/04/2004
End date	13/12/2007
Duration	44 months

Abstract

Eimeria are major pathogens of livestock, closely related to parasites that cause serious diseases in man and animals, such as Plasmodium and Cryptosporidium. Sequencing of the 60Mb E.tenella genome is progressing rapidly and the project requires a curator to annotate assembled data and maintain a user-friendly E.tenella database using a generic structure developed at the Pathogen Sequencing Unit (PSU). The curator will be based at the IAH, alongside Eimeria experts, but will spend a significant amount of time at the PSU learning bioinformatic skills. Annotation will be supported by sequencing ESTs from a range of parasite developmental stages and the assembly of a comprehensive "training" set of 200 genes for gene-finding algorithms.

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Committee	Closed Committee - Animal Sciences (AS)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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