Table 1

Mycobacterial genome sequencing projects

Organism

Size

%GC

Assigned genes

Website

Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv

4 411 532 bp

65.6

3993

http://genolist.pasteur.fr/TubercuList/ webcite

http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/M_tuberculosis/ webcite

Mycobacterium tuberculosis CDC1551

4 403 837 bp

65.6

4246

http://www.tigr.org/tigr-scripts/CMR2/GenomePage3.spl?database=gmt webcite

Mycobacterium tuberculosis C

4 276 000 bp

-

4039

http://www.broad.mit.edu/annotation/microbes/mycobacterium_tuberculosis_c/ webcite

Mycobacterium tuberculosis F11

4 413 077 bp

65.6

3911

http://www.broad.mit.edu/annotation/microbes/mycobacterium_tuberculosis_f11/ webcite

Mycobacterium tuberculosis 210

± 4 447 000 bp

-

-

http://www.tigr.org/tdb/ufmg/ webcite

Mycobacterium tuberculosis K

-

-

-

http://chimp.kribb.re.kr/~gsal/project/Mycobacteriun1.php webcite

Mycobacterium tuberculosis Haarlem

-

-

-

http://www.broad.mit.edu/annotation/genome/mycobacterium_tuberculosis_spp/MultiHome.html webcite

Mycobacterium tuberculosis Peruvian1

-

-

-

http://www.broad.mit.edu/annotation/genome/mycobacterium_tuberculosis_spp/MultiHome.html webcite

Mycobacterium tuberculosis Peruvian2

-

-

-

http://www.broad.mit.edu/annotation/genome/mycobacterium_tuberculosis_spp/MultiHome.html webcite

Mycobacterium tuberculosis W-148

-

-

-

http://www.broad.mit.edu/annotation/genome/mycobacterium_tuberculosis_spp/MultiHome.html webcite

Mycobacterium tuberculosis A1

-

-

-

http://www.broad.mit.edu/annotation/genome/mycobacterium_tuberculosis_spp/MultiHome.html webcite

Mycobacterium tuberculosis Ekat-4

-

-

-

http://www.broad.mit.edu/annotation/genome/mycobacterium_tuberculosis_spp/MultiHome.html webcite

Mycobacterium bovis AF2122/97

4 345 492 bp

65.6

3953

http://genolist.pasteur.fr/BoviList/genome.cgi webcite

http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/M_bovis/ webcite

Mycobacterium bovis BCG Pasteur 1173P2

4 375 192 bp

65.6

-

http://www.pasteur.fr/recherche/unites/Lgmb/mycogenomics.html#bovis webcite

http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/M_bovis/ webcite

Mycobacterium microti OV254

± 4 400 000 bp

~64

-

http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/M_microti/ webcite

http://www.pasteur.fr/recherche/unites/Lgmb/mycogenomics.html#microti webcite

M. canettii

± 4 400 000 bp

~64

-

http://www.sanger.ac.uk/sequencing/Mycobacterium/canetti/ webcite

M. africanum

± 4 400 000 bp

~64

-

http://www.sanger.ac.uk/sequencing/Mycobacterium/africanum/ webcite

Mycobacterium marinum M

6 636 827 bp

65.7

-

http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/M_marinum/ webcite

Mycobacterium ulcerans Agy99

5 631 606 bp

65.7

4281

http://genolist.pasteur.fr/BuruList/genome.cgi webcite

http://www.pasteur.fr/recherche/unites/Lgmb/mycogenomics.html#ulcerans webcite

http://genopole.pasteur.fr/Mulc/BuruList.html webcite

Mycobacterium ulcerans

± 4 600 000 bp

~65

-

http://www.genome.clemson.edu/projects/stc/m.ulcerans/MU__Ba/index.html webcite

M. leprae TN

3 268 203 bp

57.8

1614

http://genolist.pasteur.fr/Leproma webcite

http://www.pasteur.fr/recherche/unites/Lgmb/mycogenomics.html#leprae webcite

Mycobacterium avium 104

± 4 700 000 bp

69

-

http://www.tigr.org/tdb/ufmg/ webcite

Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis K-10

4 829 781 bp

69.2

4350

http://www.cbc.umn.edu/ResearchProjects/AGAC/Mptb/Mptbhome.html webcite

http://www.tigr.org/tigr-scripts/CMR2/GenomePage3.spl?database=ntma03 webcite

Mycobacterium smegmatis mc2155

6 988 209 bp

67.4

6776

http://www.tigr.org/tigr-scripts/CMR2/GenomePage3.spl?database=gms webcite

Mycobacterium flavenscens Pyr-GCK

± 5 939 000 bp

67

5606

http://genome.jgi-psf.org/draft_microbes/mycfl/mycfl.home.html webcite

Mycobacterium vanbaalenii Pyr-1

± 6 460 000 bp

68

6012

http://genome.jgi-psf.org/draft_microbes/mycva/mycva.home.html webcite

Mycobacterium sp MCS

5 705 450 bp 215 077 bp (plasmid)

68

5615

http://genome.jgi-psf.org/finished_microbes/myc_m/myc_m.home.html webcite

Mycobacterium sp KMS

± 6 228 000 bp

68

5891

http://genome.jgi-psf.org/draft_microbes/myc_k/myc_k.home.html webcite

Mycobacterium sp JLS

± 6 040 000 bp

68

5711

http://genome.jgi-psf.org/draft_microbes/myc_j/myc_j.home.html webcite

M. abscessus CIP 104536T

-

-

-

http://www.genoscope.cns.fr/externe/English/Projets/Projet_LU/LU.html webcite

M. chelonae CIP 104535

-

-

-

http://www.genoscope.cns.fr/externe/English/Projets/Projet_LU/LU.html webcite

Gey van Pittius et al. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2006 6:95   doi:10.1186/1471-2148-6-95