Bacillus anthracis

Background

• 89 known strains
• Most virulent: Ames(USA 2001), Vollum (WWII, biological weapon)
• Benign: Sterne (used as vaccine)

• Ames, AmesAncestor, Stern are 99.9% identical; no rearrangements

Genome Projects

NIH Genome Projects

 Center          Complete     Assembly    Progress  Total
 TIGR/JCVI       2            8           1         11
 LANL            0            6           0         6
 DOE             1            0           0         1 
 NMRC            0            0           2         2
 Total           3            14          3         20

TIGR/JCVI Strains

 Contigs  Traces   Status    Completed   Strain 
 0        96,532   Progress  .           A0039  
 62       67,600   Assembly  2007/07/25  Tsiankovskii-I AA ; ??? possible update
 1(+2)    101,379  Complete  2004/05/20  Ames Ancestor (Ames 0581)  AA ; Insignia
 42       86,181   Assembly  2004/06/04  A1055 AA ; Insignia
 1(+2)    83,552   Assembly  2005/05/16  A2012 ??? not in Insignia
 1        125,879  Complete  2002/05/16  Ames  ??? complete but not in AA ; Insignia
 49       0        Assembly  2004/06/07  Australia 94   ??? no TRACES ; Insignia
 30       90,308   Assembly  2004/06/04  CNEVA-9066 Insignia
 64       92,429   Assembly  2004/06/07  Kruger B AA ; Insignia
 52       103,144  Assembly  2004/06/04  Vollum Insignia
 44       95,078   Assembly  2004/06/07  Western North America USA6153 Insignia

LANL Strains

No traces in TA; none in Insignia

 Contigs  Traces   Status    Completed    Strain       
 60       0        Assembly  2008/04/08   A0174
 60       0        Assembly  2008/02/12   A0193                              
 68       0        Assembly  2008/03/24   A0389
 46       0        Assembly  2008/02/12   A0442
 57       0        Assembly  2008/03/24   A0465
 63       0        Assembly  2008/01/16   A0488

+ 2 plasmid genome projects (pX01,pX02) completed in 1999

DOE Strains

 Contigs  Traces   Status    Completed    Strain
 1        147,665  Complete  2004/06/24   Sterne ??? complete but not in AA; Insignia

Naval Medical Research Center

 Contigs  Traces   Status    Strain
 0        0        Progress  34F2(NMRC)
 0        0        Progress  34F2 delta gerH

Strain Assemblies

Ames

• not in AA
• assembly recreated with "AMOScmp-alignmentTrimmed -D LAYERR=90" => 1 piece
• Many stretched & missoriented mates
• Location: /fs/szasmg3/dpuiu/Bacilus_anthracis/Ames/Assembly/2008_0820_AMOScmp-alignmentTrimmed

Ames Ancestor

• Complete & in AA
• Downloaded from AA and converted to bank
• Location: /fs/szasmg3/dpuiu/Bacilus_anthracis/AmesAncestor/CS--AI-293

Sterne

Complete but not in AA. Tried to reassemble it at CBCB

AMOScmp

• version: June 12 2007
• untrimmed reads => 358 ctg
• 53 zero cvg regions, max is almost 5K

CA

• runCA-OBT.pl script
• version 5.1
• Output:

 ctg        204
 deg        145
 scf        186
 singleton  2418

Vollum

NCBI data:

         #elem   min     max     mean    median  n50     sum
 ctg     52      311     812727  105547  29178   400992  5488459

CA

         #elem   min     max     mean    median  n50     sum
ctg+deg  57      693     1541457 96154   14641   422289  5480756

 ctg     39      1073    1541457 136843  51912   422289  5336858
 deg     18      693     54711   7994    2244    54711   143898
 scf     25      1440    1593252 214001  94958   676360  5350037