January 26, 2007: Preliminary assembly of Caenorhabditis sp. 4 now available

January 26, 2007: Preliminary assembly of Caenorhabditis sp. 4 now available

A preliminary, WGS, draft assembly of Caenorhabditis sp. 4 (PB2801) is available for download on the Washington University’s Genome Sequence Center ftp site and for searching on their BLAST server. The coverage is ~9x in plasmids and fosmid ends. Primer-directed, sequence improvement of the draft assembly is in progress.