The Microbial Sequencing Center at JCVI
Announcement
On December 3rd, 2008, the NIAID Microbial Sequencing Centers announced annotation Release 1.0 of the Ixodes scapularis genome sequence (GenBank accession ABJB010000000.) This annotation was produced jointly by the J. Craig Venter Institute, the VectorBase Bioinformatics Resource Center with support from the Broad Institute of Harvard/MIT. More information is available here.
MSC
The JCVI Microbial Sequence Center (MSC), sponsored by the National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Disease (NIAID), addresses the scientific community's need for sequencing microorganisms and invertebrate vectors of disease that are considered agents of bioterrorism and/or responsible for emerging and re-emerging diseases. The MSC has the capacity to rapidly and cost-effectively sequence genomic DNA and provide preliminary identification of open reading frames and annotation of gene function for a wide variety of microorganisms, including viruses, bacteria, protozoa parasites, and fungi. NIAID has created two MSCs, one at JCVI (formerly TIGR) and one at The Broad Institute.
A recommendation from a 2002 NIAID-sponsored Blue Ribbon Panel on Bioterrorism and its Implication for Biomedical Research was to support genomic sequencing of microorganisms considered agents of bioterrorism and related organisms. This recommendation included careful selection of species, strains, and clinical isolates to generate genomic data for different uses such as strain identification and targets for diagnostics, vaccines, antimicrobials, and other drug development. For more information, please visit the NIAID website.
The above graphs show the total number of MSC WGS (Whole Genome Shotgun) projects submitted to GenBank and the total number of traces submitted to TraceArchive for MSC WGS projects.
The MSC is funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, contract #N01-AI30071.
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