The Sanger Institute has published the 7.2 Mb genome of Burkholderia pseudomallei in collaboration with Dr. Rick Titball of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Porton Down, and Dr. Ty Pitt of the Heath Protection Agency. We have sequenced strain K96243, a clinical isolate from Thailand, supplied by Dr. S. Songsivilai of Mahidol University. This project is funded by Beowulf Genomics.

Published Genome Data

The reference genome is 7,247,547 bp in size with a G+C content of 68.06% consisting of two chromosomes of 4,074,542 bp and 3,173,005 bp. The sequence is available for download by FTP and can be searched using our BLAST server.

The two fully annotated chromosomal sequences are deposited in the EMBL/GenBank databases with accession numbers BX571965 and BX571966.

Shotgun and assembly data from this project are available from the FTP link on the right.

• Genomic plasticity of the causative agent of melioidosis, Burkholderia pseudomallei.

  Holden MT, Titball RW, Peacock SJ, Cerdeño-Tárraga AM, Atkins T, Crossman LC, Pitt T, Churcher C, Mungall K, Bentley SD, Sebaihia M, Thomson NR, Bason N, Beacham IR, Brooks K, Brown KA, Brown NF, Challis GL, Cherevach I, Chillingworth T, Cronin A, Crossett B, Davis P, DeShazer D, Feltwell T, Fraser A, Hance Z, Hauser H, Holroyd S, Jagels K, Keith KE, Maddison M, Moule S, Price C, Quail MA, Rabbinowitsch E, Rutherford K, Sanders M, Simmonds M, Songsivilai S, Stevens K, Tumapa S, Vesaratchavest M, Whitehead S, Yeats C, Barrell BG, Oyston PC and Parkhill J

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2004;101;39;14240-5

  PUBMED: 15377794; PMC: 521101; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0403302101