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Functional annotation and curation of the Eimeria tenella genome

Reference	S19705
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Fiona Tomley
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Dr Bart Barrell, Dr Alastair Ivens, Professor Martin Shirley
Institution	The Pirbright Institute
Department	Div of Microbiology Compton
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	158,568
Status	Completed
Type	Research Grant
Start date	14/04/2004
End date	13/12/2007
Duration	44 months

Abstract

Eimeria are major pathogens of livestock, closely related to other serious pathogens such as Plasmodium and Cryptosporidium. Sequencing of the 60 Mb E.tenella genome has progressed rapidly to 5-fold coverage. A bioinformatician is required to carry out detailed manual annotation of the genome and to curate all E. tenella genome-related data within a user-friendly generic database structure (GeneDB). The appointee will be based at IAH, Compton, alongside Eimeria experts, but will spend a significant amount of time at the Pathogen Sequencing Unit (PSU), Sanger Institute. Annotation will be supported by sequencing ESTs from different parasite developmental stages and the generation of a comprehensive training set of full-length cDNAs. (Joint with grant number 19706).

Summary

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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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S19706 Functional annotation and curation of the Eimeria tenella genome

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