Chicken Genome Sequencing

The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has supported a chicken (Gallus gallus) genome sequencing project that produced of 6-fold whole genome shotgun sequence coverage of the chicken genome. The resulting sequence assembly was completed in March 2004 (See the press release).

Genome Sequencing Whitepaper Proposals:

• Gallus gallus
  Draft Assembly
  (Submitted Feb. 2002)
   
• Gallus gallus
  Genome Refinement
  (Submitted Sept. 2005)

Project Link:

• Washington University Genome Sequencing Center [genome.wustl.edu]

Additional Resources

Sequence and Assembly

• Individual Sequence Reads:
  • NCBI Trace Archive [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
     
• Sequence Assemblies:
  • Ensembl Chicken Genome Browser [useast.ensembl.org]
  • NCBI Chicken Genome View [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
  • Genome Gateway at the University of California at Santa Cruz [genome.ucsc.edu]

Model Organism Database

• Chicken Genome Database [thearkdb.org] at Arkdb, developed at the Roslin Institute.

ESTs

• dbEST [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]- Database of ESTs at NCBI
• BBSRC Chicken EST Project [chick.manchester.ac.uk]- Chicken EST sequencing project database from UMIST/Nottingham/Dundee Universities
• Chicken EST Database [chickest.udel.edu]- at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute

SNPs

• dbSNP [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]- Database of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms at NCBI

BAC Libraries

• Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI) [bacpac.chori.org]- Chicken BAC libraries

Other Useful SitesQ

• Chicken Genome Resources [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]