Laboratory Opossum Genome Sequencing

The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) currently supports a project aimed at producing a draft assembly of the genomic sequence of the laboratory opossum Monodelphis domestica. The genome will be sequenced to 6- to 8-fold sequence depth.

The opossum sequencing project is being led by researchers at the Broad Institute/Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Genome Sequencing Whitepaper Proposal

• Monodelphis domestica
  (Submitted June 2003)

Project Link

• Broad Institute [broadinstitute.org]

Additional Resources

Sequence and Assembly

• Individual Sequence Reads
  • NCBI Trace Archive [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

BAC Libraries

• VMRC-6: Opossum (Monodelphis domestica) BAC Library [bacpac.chori.org]