Honey Bee Genome Sequencing

The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) has supported a honey bee ( Apis mellifera ) genome sequencing project that aimed to produce between 7- and 8-fold sequence coverage of the honey bee genome in a mixture of whole genome shotgun (WGS) and low coverage BAC clone sequencing. The resulting sequence assembly was completed in January, 2004 (to see the NIH press release, please click here ). The honey bee Genome Project (HBGP) was led by the Baylor College of Medicine Genome Sequencing Center.

Genome Sequencing Whitepaper Proposals

• Apis mellifera
  Draft Assembly
  (Submitted Feb. 2002)
   
• Apis mellifera
  Genome Refinement
  (Submitted Sept. 2005)

Project Link:

• Baylor College of Medicine Genome Sequencing Center [hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu]

Supporting Institutions:

• USDA [usda.gov]

Additional Resources

Sequence and Assembly

• Individual Sequence Reads
  • NCBI Trace Archive [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
• Sequence Assembly
  • NCBI MapView [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mapview]

ESTs

• dbEST [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov] - Database of ESTs at NCBI

BAC Libraries

• Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI) - Honey Bee BAC Libraries
  • CHORI-224: Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) BAC Library [bacpac.chori.org]
  • CHORI-1224: Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Sheared Fosmid Library [bacpac.chori.org]

Other Related Sites:

• DFCI Honeybee Gene Index [compbio.dfci.harvard.edu]