[Leish-l] Leishmania genomes and Mapviewer in NCBI news

[fred opperdoes]

Leishmania Genomes
Leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease caused by various species of the  
protozoan genus Leishmania, is an important health problem in much of  
the tropical parts of the world, causing disfiguring cutaneous lesions  
and more serious complications. NCBI (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/)  
now has the genomes of two of the human pathogenic species of  
Leishmania (L. braziliensis and L. infantum). Both genomes will be  
important in further understanding the biology of these parasites and  
will help in developing new strategies to combat this disease. The  
braziliensis and infantum genomes are comprised of completely  
annotated chromosome records with associated genes and model  
transcripts. The braziliensis genome was submitted by the Wellcome  
Trust Sanger Institute and has 31.4 Megabases comprising the 35  
chromosomes with 8,129 annotated genes and gene models. The infantum  
genome submitted by a consortium that included The Wellcome Trust  
Sanger Institute, Imperial College, and University of Glasgow has 32.1  
Megabases comprising the 36 chromosomes with 8,186 annotated genes and  
gene models. For the Leishmania genomes, the contig, gene, and  
transcript maps are available within Map Viewer (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/mapview/map_search.cgi?taxid=5664 
). 
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