title: The long hard road to a completed Candida albicans genome.
abstract: After almost a decade of work, the sequencing, assembly, and annotation of the genome of the fungal pathogen Candida albicans is finally close at hand. This review covers the early history of the C. albicans genome project, from the release of early assemblies that provided the impetus for an explosion in functional genomics research, to a community-based annotation and a preview of the work that was necessary for the production of a final genome assembly.
authors.affiliation: Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Council, 6100 Royalmount, Montreal, PQ, Canada H4P 2R2. andre.nantel@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
authors.forename: André
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nantel
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D002176:Candida albicans / Q000235:genetics*; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics; D016681:Genome, Fungal; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D004271:DNA, Fungal