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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.