From lawson at ebi.ac.uk  Fri Mar 14 12:49:47 2008
From: lawson at ebi.ac.uk (lawson@ebi.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Mar 14 12:55:43 2008
Subject: [Ixodes] Ixodes scapularis genome sequence available through
	VectorBase
Message-ID: <59251.82.6.104.55.1205513387.squirrel@webmail.ebi.ac.uk>

Dear Tick researchers,

The Ixodes scapularis Wikel strain genome sequence assembly is available
for download and Blast searching at VectorBase. The assembly consists of
570,640 contigs arranged into 369,495 scaffolds yielding a combined
assembly length of 1.4 Gb. Currently the contigs have been submitted to
GenBank (the scaffolds will be available soon). So this is the first
opportunity to see the scaffold information.

Both contigs and scaffolds can be downloaded and the scaffolds are
available for Blast searching.

Ixodes Data downloads:
	http://iscapularis.vectorbase.org/GetData/Downloads/?&type=Genome&archive_status=current
Ixodes Blast:
	http://iscapularis.vectorbase.org/Tools/BLAST/

regards
VectorBase