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DOE Sequencing Projects
For status information, see the Genome Projects section
Organism | Est. Genome Size |
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Branchiostoma floridae (Florida lancelet) | 600 Mb |
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (a green alga) (improve existing genome) Why? |
100 Mb |
Ciona (sea squirt) fosmids (improve existing genome) Why? |
180 Mb |
Daphnia pulex (water flea) | 200 Mb |
Fugu rubripres (puffer fish) (fosmid) Why? |
400 Mb |
Glycine Max (soybean) Why? |
1115 Mb |
Homo sapiens chromosome 5 Why? |
180.8 Mb |
Homo sapiens chromosome 16 Why? |
88.7Mb |
Homo sapiens chromosome 19 Why? |
63.8 Mb |
Nematostella vectensis (burrowing anemone) | 340 Mb |
Phakopsora pachyrhizi (soybean rust pathogen) | 50 Mb |
Phytophthora sojae (soybean blight pathogen) Why? |
62 Mb |
Phytophthora ramorum (sudden oak death pathogen) Why? |
60 Mb |
Phaeodactylum tricornutum (a diatom) | 30 Mb |
Phanerochaete chrysosporium (white rot fungus) Why? |
30 Mb |
Populus trichocarpa (black cottonwood) Why? |
550 Mb |
Trichoderma reesei (a filamentous fungus) Why? |
30 Mb |
Xenopus tropicalis (western clawed frog) (improve existing genome to ~7.5x) Why? |
1.7 Gb |
Zea mays (corn) | 2.2 Gb |