Meningococcal genome sequencing projects

Serogroup A

• Neisseria menigitidis Z2491 (Sanger Centre, UK).
  • Sequence and annotation published in Parkhill et al. 2000 Nature 404:502-6.
  • 2,184,406 bp length.

Serogroup B

• Neisseria meningitidis MC58 (TIGR, USA).
  • Sequence and annotation published in Tettelin et al. 2000 Science 287:1767-8.
  • 2,272,351 bp length.

Serogroup C

• Neisseria meningitidis FAM18 (Sanger Centre, UK).
  • Sequence and annotation published in Bentley et al. 2007 PLoS Genet 3:e23
  • 2,194,961 bp length.
• Neisseria meningitidis 053442 (State Key Laboratory for Molecular Virology and Genetic Engineering, National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China).
  • Sequence and annotation published in Peng et al. 2007 Genomics [Epub ahead of print]
  • 2,153,416 bp length.