Welcome to the Stanford Genome Technology Center Gardnerella vaginalis Genome Project website

The Gardnerella vaginalis Genome Project is a collaboration among scientists Richard W. Hyman, Marilyn Fukushima, Lisa Diamond, Jochen Kumm, and Ronald W. Davis at the Stanford Genome Technology Center (SGTC) and Mohammad Reza Zariffard and Gregory T. Spear at Rush University Medical Center. The Gardnerella vaginalis Genome Project has been undertaken at the SGTC to provide support for studies of the role that G. vaginalis plays in the health of the human female urogenital tract.

In the real world, there are real constraints on time and money. Therefore, the Gardnerella vaginalis Genome Project will take place in several stages as funding is secured. For the first stage, the G. vaginalis 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sequencing will be undertaken and so forth through finishing and annotation.Therefore, we request that users of our unpublished G. vaginalis sequence data have patience.

We are making the genome sequence of G. vaginalis (American Type Culture Collection 14018) rapidly and broadly available. To that end, we are posting our raw sequence reads. Please remember that raw sequence data contain errors and contamination. 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 We ask that users of our unpublished sequence data respect our intention to publish the complete, accurate, and annotated sequence of the G. vaginalis genome, along with our large-scale interpretation of that sequence, as soon as possible.

The Gardnerella vaginalis Genome Project at the SGTC is supported by a grant from the Ellison Medical Foundation.

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

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January 10, 2006