Microarray-based resequencing of multiple Bacillus anthracis isolates

Michael E Zwick¹^,2 , Farrell Mcafee¹ , David J Cutler³ , Timothy D Read¹ , Jacques Ravel⁴ , Gregory R Bowman¹ , Darrell R Galloway¹ and Alfred Mateczun¹

¹Biological Defense Research Directorate, Naval Medical Research Center, 503 Robert Grant Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA

²Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA

³McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 733 North Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA

⁴The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, USA

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Genome Biology 2004, 6:R10doi:10.1186/gb-2004-6-1-r10


Published:	17 December 2004

Subject areas: Microbiology and parasitology, Genome studies, Methods

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Additional data file 1:

B. anthracis strains from the Biological Defense Research Directorate (BDRD) strain collection resequenced in this study

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Additional data file 2:

The BDRD-01 RA fragment names, the GenBank reference sequence from which they are derived, the length of the unique genomic sequences submitted to RA design, the length of the unique genomic sequences capable of being queried, and the LPCR primer pairs used to amplify the RA fragments

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Additional data file 3:

The B. anthracis SNPs identified in this study. The data include the BDRD SNP ID, the GenBank reference sequence and RA fragment containing the SNP, the SNP position relative to the GenBank reference sequence and the RA sequence, the SNP frequency, and the listing of the base calls in all strains at sites harboring SNPs

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Additional data file 4:

The 31 B. anthracis genes partially or wholly resequenced in this study

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Additional data file 5:

The genomic sequences submitted to RA design for BDRD-01

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