title: Parasitic helminth genomics. Filarial Genome Project.
abstract: The initiation of genome projects on helminths of medical importance promises to yield new drug targets and vaccine candidates in unprecedented numbers. In order to exploit this emerging data it is essential that the user community is aware of the scope and quality of data available, and that the genome projects provide analyses of the raw data to highlight potential genes of interest. Core bioinformatics support for the parasite genome projects has promoted these approaches. In the Brugia genome project, a combination of expressed sequence tag sequencing from multiple cDNA libraries representing the complete filarial nematode lifecycle, and comparative analysis of the sequence dataset, particularly using the complete genome sequence of the model nematode C. elegans, has proved very effective in gene discovery.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Blaxter
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Aslett
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Guiliano
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Daub
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017178:Brugia malayi / Q000235:genetics; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans / Q000235:genetics; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D019295:Computational Biology; D020224:Expressed Sequence Tags; D005370:Filarioidea / Q000235:genetics* / Q000469:parasitology; D017238:Genes, Helminth; D016678:Genome; D006376:Helminths / Q000235:genetics* / Q000469:parasitology; D012547:Schistosoma / Q000235:genetics