Team 3

Team Members:

Kevin McGee : GenMAPP User
Lena Hunt : Quality Assurance
Viktoria Kuehn : GenMAPP User
Gabriel Leis : Coder

Organism: Leishmania Major

Reference Genome Article

The Genome of the Kinetoplastid Parasite, Leishmania major (Reference Genome)
This article was found via the PubMed database and the key terms used were "Leishmania Major [MeSH Terms] AND Genome [Title]"
This search resulted in 30 articles, about 5 seemed relevant but this one was the first which had the entire genome
Citation for paper:
Alasdair C. Ivens, Christopher S. Peacock, Elizabeth A. Worthey, Lee Murphy, Gautam Aggarwa, Matthew Berriman, Ellen Sisk, Marie-Adele Rajandream, Ellen Adlem, Rita Aert, Atashi Anupama, Zina Apostolou, Philip Attipoe, Nathalie Bason, Christopher Bauser, Alfred Beck, Stephen M. Beverley, Gabriella Bianchettin, Katja Borzym, Gordana Bothe, Carlo V. Bruschi, Matt Collins, Eithon Cadag, Laura Ciarloni, Christine Clayton, Richard M. R. Coulson, Ann Cronin, Angela K. Cruz, Robert M. Davies, Javier De Gaudenzi, Deborah E. Dobson, Andreas Duesterhoeft, Gholam Fazelina, Nigel Fosker, Alberto Carlos Frasch, Audrey Fraser, Monika Fuchs, Claudia Gabel, Arlette Goble, André Goffeau, David Harris, Christiane Hertz-Fowler, Helmut Hilbert, David Horn, Yiting Huang, Sven Klages, Andrew Knights, Michael Kube, Natasha Larke, Lyudmila Litvin, Angela Lord, Tin Louie, Marco Marra, David Masuy, Keith Matthews, Shulamit Michaeli, Jeremy C. Mottram, Silke Müller-Auer, Heather Munden, Siri Nelson, Halina Norbertczak, Karen Oliver, Susan O'Neil, Martin Pentony, Thomas M. Poh, Claire Price, Bénédicte Purnelle, Michael A. Quail, Ester Rabbinowitsch, Richard Reinhardt, Michael Rieger, Joel Rinta, Johan Robben, Laura Robertson, Jeronimo C. Ruiz, Simon Rutter, David Saunders, Melanie Schäfer, Jacquie Schein, David C. Schwartz, Kathy Seeger, Amber Seyler, Sarah Sharp, Heesun Shin, Dhileep Sivam, Rob Squares, Steve Squares, Valentina Tosato, Christy Vogt, Guido Volckaert, Rolf Wambutt, Tim Warren, Holger Wedler, John Woodward, Shiguo Zhou, Wolfgang Zimmermann, Deborah F. Smith, Jenefer M. Blackwell, Kenneth D. Stuart, Bart Barrel, Peter J. Myler 2005 Jul 15. The genome of the kinetoplastid parasite, Leishmania major. Science;309(5733):436-42.

Pdf of the reference article: PDF Reference Article
The genome sequencing article was used to do a prospective search on the Web of Knowledge database.
There were 696 results found that referenced this article, the most recent one was in October 2013.
Many of the most recent articles that cited this paper were involved in studying drug resistance of Leishmania major and studied related pathogenic parasites using sequence comparative analysis, for example.
Link to the results page for our reference genome article