PRJNA16084
The causal agent of human trichomoniasis
The <i>Trichomonas vaginalis</i> strain G3 genome project was carried-out at <A HREF="http://www.tigr.org/tdb/e2k1/tvg/">The Institute for Genomic Research</A> (TIGR). The complete genome sequence of this organism was generated using whole genome shotgun (WGS) methodology, and was assembled into 17,290 scaffolds at ~7.2 coverage.   The <i>T. vaginalis</i> genome size is large, ~160 Mb and was found to be highly repetitive (65% of the genome) and to have many transposon-like elements. Approximately 60,000 protein-coding genes were identified throughout the six <i>T. vaginalis</i> chromosomes. Thus, <i>T. vaginalis</i> has one of the most repetitive genomes and one of the highest coding capacities among protozoa. Analysis of the <i>T. vaginalis</i> genome sequence also revealed that this organism has undergone a recent and considerable increase in genome size.  The WGS sequence data are available in GenBank and RefSeq under accession numbers <A HREF="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?term=66651681&cmd=Search&db=nuccore&QueryKey=365">AAHC00000000</A> and <A HREF="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?term=121723103&cmd=Search&db=nuccore&QueryKey=370">NZ_AAHC00000000</A>, respectively. The <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=bioproject&cmd=Link&LinkName=bioproject_nuccore_scaffold&from_uid=16084">assembled scaffolds</a> with preliminary annotation were submitted to GenBank by TIGR and are also available as part of the <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=bioproject&cmd=Link&LinkName=bioproject_nuccore_scaffold&from_uid=18631">RefSeq</a> genome collection.