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Cyanobacterial Genome Projects
(updated 28 September 2002)

The world stood at attention as the news broke that the human genome had been sequenced. But, hey, we have sequences too! In fact, a cyanobacterium, Synechocystis PCC 6803, was amongst the first organisms fully sequenced, and there's more coming down the cyanobacterial pipe. So -- hello world! -- here's what we have in genome projects. See also Masahiko Ikeuchi's Genome Projects of Cyanobacteria site for more information on the strains.

Unicellular cyanobacteria
Gloeobacter violaceus PCC 7421: 4.6 Mb. Finishing as of August 2002. By Kazusa DNA Research Institute. Contact: Satoshi Tabata

Microcystis aeruginosa: 4.8 Mb. In progress as of December 2001. By Institut Pasteur, Paris. Contact: Nicole Tandeau de Marsac

Prochlorococcus marinus MED4: 1.66 Mb, completed 2001. By Joint Genome Institute. Contact: Penny Chisholm

Prochlorococcus marinus MIT9313: 2.4 Mb, completed 2001. By Joint Genome Institute. Contact: Penny Chisholm

Prochlorococcus marinus SS120: 1.8 Mb, 8x coverage as of December 2001. By Genoscope. Contact: Frédéric Partensky and Daniel Vaulot.

Synechococcus PCC 6301 (Anacystis nidulans): No information as of  December 2001. By the Gene Research Center at  Nagoya University. Contact: Mamoru Sugita

Synechococcus PCC 7002: 6x coverage as of October 2001. By Beijing University. Contact: Jindong Zhao

Synechococcus PCC 7942: Being annotated and deposited cosmid by cosmid. At least 8 cosmids and two endogenous plasmids sequenced and annotated by September 2002. Function approached by mutagenesis of each orf. Project at Texas A&M University but moving to Joint Genome Institute. Contact: Susan Golden

Synechococcus WH8102: 2.4, completed 2001. By Joint Genome Institute. Contacts: Bianca Brahamsha, Brian Palenik, and John Waterbury

Synechocystis PCC 6803: 3.6 Mb, complete, completed 1996, last modified Dec 1999, reannotated 2002. By Kazusa DNA Research Institute. Contact: Satoshi Tabata. Community annotation project at ANORF (enter as guest, password also guest). Contact Tatsuo Omata.

Thermosynechococcus elongatus BP1: 2.6 Mb, completed 2002. By Kazusa DNA Research Institute. Contact: Satoshi Tabata. Community annotation project at TEORF (enter as guest, password also guest). Contact Tatsuo Omata.
 

Filamentous cyanobacteria
Arthrospira (Spirulina) platensis: Finishing data collection as of January 2001. By Human Genome Center, Beijing.Contact: Cheng-Cai Zhang

Trichodesmium erythraeum: 6.5 Mb, 1107 contigs as of September 2002. By Joint Genome Institute. Contacts: John Waterbury and Eric Webb.
 

Heterocystous cyanobacteria
Anabaena PCC 7120: 6.4 Mb plus 800 Kb in six plasmids, completed 2001. By Kazusa DNA Research Institute. Contact: Satoshi Tabata. Community annotation project at ANORF (enter as guest, password also guest). Contact Tatsuo Omata.

Nostoc punctiforme ATCC 29133: ~9 Mb, 662 contigs as of June 2000. By Joint Genome Institute. Contact: Jack Meeks

Most of the sites offer BLAST searches of the genome, either the DNA sequence or translation of it. You may download the entire available sequence or (in some cases) selected parts of it. The Synechocystis and Anabaena sites provide a graphical map of the genomes and their predicted genes.