WGS of P. chabaudi chabaudi AS clone. Plasmodium chabaudi

The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Pathogen Genomics group is sequencing a number of different species of malaria parasites. As part of this project, the mouse malaria parasite P. chabaudi chabaudi AS is being sequenced to a high coverage with sequence reads from a combination of different sequencing technologies. P. chabaudi is an important model malaria parasite and sequencing the genome will not only provide a platform for comparative genomic studies to be performed but also provide the raw material for large scale gene knockout or knockdown studies to be performed in the future. Illumina sequencing reads are being used for improving the assembly and for accurate base calling.. This data is part of a pre-publication release. For information on the proper use of pre-publication data shared by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (including details of any publication moratoria), please see http://www.sanger.ac.uk/datasharing/