The Sanger Institute fungal sequencing effort is concentrated on pathogens and model organisms. Below is a list of projects funded, underway or completed; all data from these projects are immediately and freely available.

Data are accessible in a number of ways; for each organism there is a BLAST server, allowing you to search the sequences with your own query. Sequences can also be down-loaded directly by FTP. In addition, for those organisms being sequenced using a cosmid approach, finished and annotated cosmids are submitted to EMBL and other public databases (these continue to be accessible by BLAST and FTP from here). The Pombe pages also contain added information such as functional classification of proteins. Enquiries about sequencing or analysis should be directed to the head of the Pathogen group, Julian Parkhill.

Organism	Size (Mb)	Status	Funding
Aspergillus fumigatus
Pilot Study	10 BACs	Finished Pain et al. (2004) Fungal Genet Biol.	Beowulf Genomics
Complete genome sequence	35	Finished Nierman et al. (2005) Nature	Beowulf Genomics
Candida dubliniensis
Complete genome sequencing	16 Mb	Finished Jackson et al. (2009) Genome Res.	Wellcome Trust
Candida parapsilosis
Complete genome sequencing	13 Mb	Published Butler et al. (2009) Nature	Wellcome Trust
Phytophthora infestans
BAC Sequencing	3 BACs	Finished Armstrong et al. (2005) P.N.A.S.	Scottish Crop Research Institute
Pneumocystis carinii
Telomeric Cosmid Sequencing	10 Cosmids	Finished Keely et al. (2005) Genetics	Beowulf Genomics
Saccharomyces cerevisiae		The yeast genome directory (1997) Nature
chromosomes IV,IX,XIII,XVI	3.93	Finished	Wellcome Trust
Schizosaccharomyces pombe		Wood et al. (2002) Nature
chromosome I	5.7 Mb	in finishing	Wellcome Trust European Commission
chromosome II	4.6 Mb	in finishing	European Commission
chromosome III	3.5 Mb	in finishing	European Commission