The Sanger Institute, in collaboration with the University of Liverpool, has sequenced the genome of the Neospora caninum Liverpool strain to 8x coverage using capillary sequencing. High-thoughput second generation transcriptome sequencing (mRNA-Seq) has been used to improve annotation of the genome sequence and also to study differential expression in the tachyzoite life stage.

The sequencing centre plans on publishing the completed and annotated sequences in a peer-reviewed journal as soon as possible. Permission of the principal investigators should be obtained before publishing analyses of the sequence/open reading frames/genes/transcriptome on a chromosome or genome scale.

Published Genome Data

The N. caninum genome assembly and annotation is available from GeneDB [1].