Welcome to the Stanford Genome Technology Center Atopobium vaginae Genome Project website

The Atopobium vaginae Genome Project has been undertaken at the Stanford Genome Technology Center (SGTC) to provide support for studies of the role that A. vaginae plays in the health of the human female urogenital tract.

In the real world, there are real constraints on time and money. Therefore, the Atopobium vaginae Genome Project will take place in several stages as funding is secured. For the first stage, the A. vaginae genome will be shotgun sequenced to three-to-five-fold genome coverage. The shotgun reads will be assembled into contigs. When additional funding has been achieved, more shotgun sequencing will be undertaken and so forth through finishing and annotation. Therefore, we request that users of our unpublished A. vaginae sequence data have patience.

We are making the genome sequence of A. vaginae (American Type Culture Collection BAA-55) rapidly and broadly available. To that end, we are posting our raw sequence reads. Please remember that raw sequence data contain errors and contamination and should be used with caution. Following each assembly, we are posting our contigs-in-progress as soon as practicable. Thus, our sequence data are posted and public but are NOT published. We ask that users of our unpublished sequence data respect our intention to publish the complete, accurate, and annotated sequence of the A. vaginae genome, along with our large-scale interpretation of that sequence, as soon as possible.

The Atopobium vaginae Genome Project at the SGTC is supported by a grant from the Ellison Medical Foundation. We thank Dr. Ellen Jo Baron, Director of the Stanford Medical Center Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, for assistance in growing this obligate anaerobe.

Before we proceed into the A. vaginae genome sequence data, we would like you to read our data release policy.

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January 10, 2006