Matthew Berriman

Assembly of the Candida albicansgenome into sixteen supercontigs aligned on the eight chromosomes (2007)

Van Het Hoog, Marco, Rast, Timothy J, Martchenko, Mikhail, Grindle, Suzanne, Dignard, Daniel, Hogues, Hervé, ...

Abstract Background The 10.9× genomic sequence of Candida albicans , the most important human fungal pathogen, was published in 2004. Assembly 19 consisted of 412 supercontigs, of which 266 were a...

GOtcha: a new method for prediction of protein function assessed by the annotation of seven genomes (2004)

Martin, David MA, Berriman, Matthew, Barton, Geoffrey J

Abstract Background The function of a novel gene product is typically predicted by transitive assignment of annotation from similar sequences. We describe a novel method, GOtcha, for predicting gene...

The DNA sequence of chromosome I of an African trypanosome: gene content, chromosome organisation, recombination and polymorphism (2003)

Hall, Neil, Berriman, Matthew, Lennard, Nicola J., Harris, Barbara R., Hertz-Fowler, Christiane, Bart-Delabesse, Emmanuelle N., ...

The African trypanosome, Trypanosoma brucei, causes sleeping sickness in humans in sub-Saharan Africa. Here we report the sequence and analysis of the 1.1 Mb chromosome I, which encodes approximately...

A New, Expressed Multigene Family Containing a Hot Spot for Insertion of Retroelements Is Associated with Polymorphic Subtelomeric Regions of Trypanosoma brucei

Bringaud, Frédéric, Biteau, Nicolas, Melville, Sara E., Hez, Stéphanie, El-Sayed, Najib M., Leech, Vanessa, ...

We describe a novel gene family that forms clusters in subtelomeric regions of Trypanosoma brucei chromosomes and partially accounts for the observed clustering of retrotransposons. The ingi and...

The DNA sequence of chromosome I of an African trypanosome: gene content, chromosome organisation, recombination and polymorphism

Hall, Neil, Berriman, Matthew, Lennard, Nicola J., Harris, Barbara R., Hertz-Fowler, Christiane, Bart-Delabesse, Emmanuelle N., ...

The African trypanosome, Trypanosoma brucei, causes sleeping sickness in humans in sub-Saharan Africa. Here we report the sequence and analysis of the 1.1 Mb chromosome I, which encodes approximately...

GeneDB: a resource for prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms

Hertz-Fowler, Christiane, Peacock, Chris S., Wood, Valerie, Aslett, Martin, Kerhornou, Arnaud, Mooney, Paul, ...

GeneDB (http://www.genedb.org/) is a genome database for prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms. The resource provides a portal through which data generated by the Pathogen Sequencing Unit at the...

An ancestral oomycete locus contains late blight avirulence gene Avr3a, encoding a protein that is recognized in the host cytoplasm

Armstrong, Miles R., Whisson, Stephen C., Pritchard, Leighton, Bos, Jorunn I. B., Venter, Eduard, Avrova, Anna O., ...

The oomycete Phytophthora infestans causes late blight, the potato disease that precipitated the Irish famines in 1846 and 1847. It represents a reemerging threat to potato production and is one of...

A Human-Curated Annotation of the Candida albicans Genome

Braun, Burkhard R, Van Het Hoog, Marco, D'Enfert, Christophe, Martchenko, Mikhail, Dungan, Jan, Kuo, Alan, ...

Recent sequencing and assembly of the genome for the fungal pathogen Candida albicans used simple automated procedures for the identification of putative genes. We have reviewed the entire assembly,...

Plasmodium falciparum Variant Surface Antigen Expression Patterns during Malaria

Bull, Peter C, Berriman, Matthew, Kyes, Sue, Quail, Michael A, Hall, Neil, Kortok, Moses M, ...

The variant surface antigens expressed on Plasmodium falciparum–infected erythrocytes are potentially important targets of immunity to malaria and are encoded, at least in part, by a family of var...

The genetic map and comparative analysis with the physical map of Trypanosoma brucei

MacLeod, Annette, Tweedie, Alison, McLellan, Sarah, Taylor, Sonya, Hall, Neil, Berriman, Matthew, ...

Trypanosoma brucei is the causative agent of African sleeping sickness in humans and contributes to the debilitating disease ‘Nagana’ in cattle. To date we know little about the genes that...

A New, Expressed Multigene Family Containing a Hot Spot for Insertion of Retroelements Is Associated with Polymorphic Subtelomeric Regions of Trypanosoma brucei

Bringaud, Frédéric, Biteau, Nicolas, Melville, Sara E., Hez, Stéphanie, El-Sayed, Najib M., Leech, Vanessa, ...

We describe a novel gene family that forms clusters in subtelomeric regions of Trypanosoma brucei chromosomes and partially accounts for the observed clustering of retrotransposons. The ingi and...

The DNA sequence of chromosome I of an African trypanosome: gene content, chromosome organisation, recombination and polymorphism

Hall, Neil, Berriman, Matthew, Lennard, Nicola J., Harris, Barbara R., Hertz-Fowler, Christiane, Bart-Delabesse, Emmanuelle N., ...

The African trypanosome, Trypanosoma brucei, causes sleeping sickness in humans in sub-Saharan Africa. Here we report the sequence and analysis of the 1.1 Mb chromosome I, which encodes approximately...

GeneDB: a resource for prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms

Hertz-Fowler, Christiane, Peacock, Chris S., Wood, Valerie, Aslett, Martin, Kerhornou, Arnaud, Mooney, Paul, ...

GeneDB (http://www.genedb.org/) is a genome database for prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms. The resource provides a portal through which data generated by the Pathogen Sequencing Unit at the...

An ancestral oomycete locus contains late blight avirulence gene Avr3a, encoding a protein that is recognized in the host cytoplasm

Armstrong, Miles R., Whisson, Stephen C., Pritchard, Leighton, Bos, Jorunn I. B., Venter, Eduard, Avrova, Anna O., ...

The oomycete Phytophthora infestans causes late blight, the potato disease that precipitated the Irish famines in 1846 and 1847. It represents a reemerging threat to potato production and is one of...

A Human-Curated Annotation of the Candida albicans Genome

Braun, Burkhard R, Van Het Hoog, Marco, D'Enfert, Christophe, Martchenko, Mikhail, Dungan, Jan, Kuo, Alan, ...

Recent sequencing and assembly of the genome for the fungal pathogen Candida albicans used simple automated procedures for the identification of putative genes. We have reviewed the entire assembly,...

Plasmodium falciparum Variant Surface Antigen Expression Patterns during Malaria

Bull, Peter C, Berriman, Matthew, Kyes, Sue, Quail, Michael A, Hall, Neil, Kortok, Moses M, ...

The variant surface antigens expressed on Plasmodium falciparum–infected erythrocytes are potentially important targets of immunity to malaria and are encoded, at least in part, by a family of var...

The genetic map and comparative analysis with the physical map of Trypanosoma brucei

MacLeod, Annette, Tweedie, Alison, McLellan, Sarah, Taylor, Sonya, Hall, Neil, Berriman, Matthew, ...

Trypanosoma brucei is the causative agent of African sleeping sickness in humans and contributes to the debilitating disease ‘Nagana’ in cattle. To date we know little about the genes that...

Just one cross appears capable of dramatically altering the population biology of a eukaryotic pathogen like Toxoplasma gondii

Boyle, Jon P., Rajasekar, Badri, Saeij, Jeroen P. J., Ajioka, James W., Berriman, Matthew, Paulsen, Ian, ...

Toxoplasma gondii, an obligate intracellular protozoan of the phylum Apicomplexa, is estimated to infect over a billion people worldwide as well as a great many other mammalian and avian hosts....

Common inheritance of chromosome Ia associated with clonal expansion of Toxoplasma gondii

Khan, Asis, Böhme, Ulrike, Kelly, Krystyna A., Adlem, Ellen, Brooks, Karen, Simmonds, Mark, ...

Toxoplasma gondii is a globally distributed protozoan parasite that can infect virtually all warm-blooded animals and humans. Despite the existence of a sexual phase in the life cycle, T. gondii has...

Assembly of the Candida albicans genome into sixteen supercontigs aligned on the eight chromosomes

Van Het Hoog, Marco, Rast, Timothy J, Martchenko, Mikhail, Grindle, Suzanne, Dignard, Daniel, Hogues, Hervé, ...

For Assembly 20 of the Candida albicans genome, the sequence of each of the eight chromosomes was determined, revealing new insights into gene family creation and dispersion, subtelomere...

Sequencing and analysis of chromosome 1 of Eimeria tenella reveals a unique segmental organization

Ling, King-Hwa, Rajandream, Marie-Adele, Rivailler, Pierre, Ivens, Alasdair, Yap, Soon-Joo, Madeira, Alda M.B.N., ...

Eimeria tenella is an intracellular protozoan parasite that infects the intestinal tracts of domestic fowl and causes coccidiosis, a serious and sometimes lethal enteritis. Eimeria falls in the same...

Differential var gene expression in the organs of patients dying of falciparum malaria

Montgomery, Jacqui, Mphande, Fingani A, Berriman, Matthew, Pain, Arnab, Rogerson, Stephen J, Taylor, Terrie E, ...

Sequestration of parasitized erythrocytes in the microcirculation of tissues is thought to be important in the pathogenesis of severe falciparum malaria. A major variant surface antigen,...