Back in June we officially launched the Anopheles gambiae 1000 genomes project, which is a consortial project generating and analysing whole genome sequence data on wild-caught mosquitoes of the species Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles coluzzii, the major vectors of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Africa.
Along with the initial web page, we also made our first data release. The phase 1 preview release contains genotype data on 103 mosquitoes from Uganda, contributed by Martin Donnelly and David Weetman of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. VCF files are available to download from the Ag1000G public FTP site, and there is also an early version of the Panoptes web application which provides an interactive environment for exploring the data.
The consortium is currently working hard on preparing and analysing the full phase 1 dataset, which comprises 765 samples from 8 countries spanning sub-Saharan Africa. We hope to release at least a beta version of these data before the end of the year, I’ll post here when it’s available.
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