The Sanger Institute has completed the sequencing of and recently published the 2.25 Mb genome of S. equi strain 4070 in collaboration with Prof. Mike Kehoe, of the School of Cell and Molecular Biosciences, University of Newcastle, Duncan Maskell of the Centre for Veterinary Science, Dept. of Clinical Veterinary medicine, The University of Cambridge, and Dr. Neil Chanter of the Centre for Preventative Medicine, Animal Health Trust.

Published Genome Data

The fully annotated genome is available from the EMBL/GenBank databases with accession number FM204883.

Shotgun and assembly data from this project are available from our FTP site.

• Genomic evidence for the evolution of Streptococcus equi: host restriction, increased virulence, and genetic exchange with human pathogens.

  Holden MT, Heather Z, Paillot R, Steward KF, Webb K, Ainslie F, Jourdan T, Bason NC, Holroyd NE, Mungall K, Quail MA, Sanders M, Simmonds M, Willey D, Brooks K, Aanensen DM, Spratt BG, Jolley KA, Maiden MC, Kehoe M, Chanter N, Bentley SD, Robinson C, Maskell DJ, Parkhill J and Waller AS

  PLoS pathogens2009;5;3;e1000346

  PUBMED: 19325880; PMC: 2654543; DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000346