The genome of the African trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei.

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Published in Science on July 15, 2005

Authors

Matthew Berriman1, Elodie Ghedin, Christiane Hertz-Fowler, Gaëlle Blandin, Hubert Renauld, Daniella C Bartholomeu, Nicola J Lennard, Elisabet Caler, Nancy E Hamlin, Brian Haas, Ulrike Böhme, Linda Hannick, Martin A Aslett, Joshua Shallom, Lucio Marcello, Lihua Hou, Bill Wickstead, U Cecilia M Alsmark, Claire Arrowsmith, Rebecca J Atkin, Andrew J Barron, Frederic Bringaud, Karen Brooks, Mark Carrington, Inna Cherevach, Tracey-Jane Chillingworth, Carol Churcher, Louise N Clark, Craig H Corton, Ann Cronin, Rob M Davies, Jonathon Doggett, Appolinaire Djikeng, Tamara Feldblyum, Mark C Field, Audrey Fraser, Ian Goodhead, Zahra Hance, David Harper, Barbara R Harris, Heidi Hauser, Jessica Hostetler, Al Ivens, Kay Jagels, David Johnson, Justin Johnson, Kristine Jones, Arnaud X Kerhornou, Hean Koo, Natasha Larke, Scott Landfear, Christopher Larkin, Vanessa Leech, Alexandra Line, Angela Lord, Annette Macleod, Paul J Mooney, Sharon Moule, David M A Martin, Gareth W Morgan, Karen Mungall, Halina Norbertczak, Doug Ormond, Grace Pai, Chris S Peacock, Jeremy Peterson, Michael A Quail, Ester Rabbinowitsch, Marie-Adele Rajandream, Chris Reitter, Steven L Salzberg, Mandy Sanders, Seth Schobel, Sarah Sharp, Mark Simmonds, Anjana J Simpson, Luke Tallon, C Michael R Turner, Andrew Tait, Adrian R Tivey, Susan Van Aken, Danielle Walker, David Wanless, Shiliang Wang, Brian White, Owen White, Sally Whitehead, John Woodward, Jennifer Wortman, Mark D Adams, T Martin Embley, Keith Gull, Elisabetta Ullu, J David Barry, Alan H Fairlamb, Fred Opperdoes, Barclay G Barrell, John E Donelson, Neil Hall, Claire M Fraser, Sara E Melville, Najib M El-Sayed

Author Affiliations

1: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK. mb4@sanger.ac.uk

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