Assembly of the Candida albicans genome into sixteen supercontigs aligned on the eight chromosomes

Marco van het Hoog^{* 1} , Timothy J Rast^{* 2} , Mikhail Martchenko¹ , Suzanne Grindle² , Daniel Dignard¹ , Hervé Hogues¹ , Christine Cuomo³ , Matthew Berriman⁴ , Stewart Scherer⁵ , BB Magee² , Malcolm Whiteway¹ , Hiroji Chibana⁶ , André Nantel¹ and PT Magee²

¹Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Council of Canada, Montreal, Quebec, H4P 2R2, Canada

²University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

³Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA

⁴Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK

⁵Paseo Grande, Moraga, CA 94556, USA

⁶Research Center for Pathogenic Fungi and Microbial Toxicoses, Chiba University, Chiba, 260-8673, Japan