The Sanger Institute has been funded by the Wellcome Trust to sequence the genome of Bacteriovorax marinus strain SJ in collaboration with Dr. O. Colin Stine of the Department of Epidemiology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Dr. Henry N. Williams and Dr. Silvia Piņeiro of the School of Dentistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore, and Dr. Casonya Johnson of the Department of Biology, Morgan State University, Baltimore.
Bacteriovorax marinus is a Gram negative predatory bacterium that parasitises a wide range of other Gram negative bacteria.
The sequence is now finished, and is available for searching on our Blast Server.
The shotgun data, finished sequences and initial gene prediction with assigned systematic gene identifiers are available for download from our FTP site.
It consists of a chromsome of 3,435,933 bp with a G+C content of 36.75 %, and a plasmid of 1,973 bp with a G+C content of 36.19 %.The shotgun reads are still available: there are 42,363 reads totalling 29.762 Mb and giving a theoretical coverage of 99.97% of the genome.
