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Functional annotation and curation of the Eimeria tenella genome

ReferenceS19706
Principal Investigator / Supervisor Dr Alastair Ivens
Co-Investigators /
Co-Supervisors
Dr Bart Barrell, Professor Martin Shirley, Professor Fiona Tomley
Institution Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
DepartmentBioinformatics Division
Funding typeResearch
Value (£) 58,908
StatusCompleted
TypeResearch Grant
Start date 21/04/2004
End date 20/08/2007
Duration40 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 EST's from different parasite developmental stages and the generation of a comprehensive training set of full-length cDNAs. (Joint with grant number 19705).

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Committee Closed Committee - Animal Sciences (AS)
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