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Schistosoma curassoni

BioProject PRJEB519 | Data Source Wellcome Sanger Institute | Taxonomy ID 6186

About Schistosoma curassoni

The trematode Schistosoma curassoni is a parasite of sheep, cattle and goats in parts of West Africa.

There is 1 alternative genome project for Schistosoma curassoni available in WormBase ParaSite: PRJEB44434

Genome Assembly & Annotation

Assembly

The draft genome assembly was produced by the Parasite Genomic group at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, in collaboration with Aidan Emery and David Rollinson (Natural History Museum, London) 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 and WormBase, 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

AssemblyS_curassoni_Dakar_0011_upd, GCA_900618015.1
StrainSenegal/Dakar
Database VersionWBPS19
Genome Size344,202,215
Data SourceWellcome Sanger Institute
Annotation Version2014-06-50HGPpatch

Gene counts

Coding genes23,546
Gene transcripts23,546

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