Mouse Genome Project

Image source: George Shuklin (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-1.0], via Wikimedia Commons

About the Project

The BCM-HGSC has sequenced chromosomes 6 and 10 of the laboratory mouse (Mus musculus).

The genome sequence of the mouse was produced by the Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium. BCM-HGSC finished 178Mb of redundant sequence or ~120 Mb of unique sequence for the mouse project that was completed in December 2005.

Funding for this project was provided by the NIH.

Genomic Resources

Access to the Data

Individual matched sequences (reads or assemblies) can be retrieved from the BCM-HGSC FTP site or from the NCBI Trace Archive using links below.

A three-way comparison of rat and human to mouse chromosomes found using Pash is available for browsing.

Additional Resources

Related Publications

Xu Y, Singh KV, Qin X, Murray BE, Weinstock GM. Analysis of a gene cluster of Enterococcus faecalis involved in polysaccharide biosynthesis. Infect Immun. 2000 ;68(2):815-23.

Bouck JB, Metzker ML, Gibbs RA. Shotgun sample sequence comparisons between mouse and human genomes. Nat Genet. 2000 ;25(1):31-3.

Pacheco SE, Gibbs RA, Ansari-Lari A, Rogers P. Intranasal immunization with HIV reverse transcriptase: effect of dose in the induction of helper T cell type 1 and 2 immunity. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2000 ;16(18):2009-17.

Zhang Z, Lin L, Liu G, Wang M, Hill J, Wang Y, et al.. Fine mapping and characterization of candidate lung tumor resistance genes for the Par2 locus on mouse chromosome 18. Exp Lung Res. 2000 ;26(8):627-39.

Qin X, Singh KV, Weinstock GM, Murray BE. Effects of Enterococcus faecalis fsr genes on production of gelatinase and a serine protease and virulence. Infect Immun. 2000 ;68(5):2579-86.

Burgess DL, Davis CF, Gefrides LA, Noebels JL. Identification of three novel Ca(2+) channel gamma subunit genes reveals molecular diversification by tandem and chromosome duplication. Genome Res. 1999 ;9(12):1204-13.

Ansari-Lari MA, Oeltjen JC, Schwartz S, Zhang Z, Muzny DM, Lu J, et al.. Comparative sequence analysis of a gene-rich cluster at human chromosome 12p13 and its syntenic region in mouse chromosome 6. Genome Res. 1998 ;8(1):29-40.

Singh KV, Qin X, Weinstock GM, Murray BE. Generation and testing of mutants of Enterococcus faecalis in a mouse peritonitis model. J Infect Dis. 1998 ;178(5):1416-20.

Qin X, Singh KV, Xu Y, Weinstock GM, Murray BE. Effect of disruption of a gene encoding an autolysin of Enterococcus faecalis OG1RF. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 1998 ;42(11):2883-8.

Oeltjen JC, Malley TM, Muzny DM, Miller W, Gibbs RA, Belmont JW. Large-scale comparative sequence analysis of the human and murine Bruton's tyrosine kinase loci reveals conserved regulatory domains. Genome Res. 1997 ;7(4):315-29.