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Onchocerca flexuosa

BioProject PRJEB512 | Data Source Wellcome Sanger Institute | Taxonomy ID 387005

About Onchocerca flexuosa

The nematode Onchocerca flexuosa is a Wolbachia-free parasite that causes onchocerciasis in deer.

There is 1 alternative genome project for Onchocerca flexuosa available in WormBase ParaSite: PRJNA230512

Genome Assembly & Annotation

Assembly

The draft genome assembly was produced by the Parasite Genomic group at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, in collaboration with Antonio Osuna (Universidad de Granada) as part of the 50 Helminth Genomes project. The assembly uses Illumina paired-end sequencing followed by an in-house genome assembly pipeline comprising various steps, including contig assembly, scaffolding, gap-filling and error-correction.

Annotation

The gene predictions were made by the Parasite Genomics group at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, as part of the 50 Helminth Genomes project. An in-house pipeline was developed that used MAKER to generate high-quality annotations by integrating evidence from multiple sources: ab initio gene predictions from AUGUSTUS, GeneMark-ES, and SNAP; projected annotation from C. elegans (using GenBlastG) and the taxonomically nearest reference helminth genome (using RATT); and ESTs, mRNAs and proteins from related organisms aligned to the genome using BLAST, with refinement of alignments using Exonerate.

Key Publications

Assembly Statistics

AssemblyO_flexuosa_Cordoba_0011_upd, GCA_900618345.1
StrainSpain/Cordoba
Database VersionWBPS18
Genome Size86,175,476
Data SourceWellcome Sanger Institute
Annotation Version2014-06-50HGPpatch

Gene counts

Coding genes16,119
Gene transcripts16,119

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