The National Library of Medicine recently released the complete annotated sequence of Arturo, a mycobacteriophage discovered on campus by Duncan Oliphant ’12 and annotated in the spring 2012 semester by H-SC’s Genomics class (Barron Frazier ’12, James Hughes ’14, Carter Mavromatis ’12, Kris Miller ’13, Jonathan Park ’12, and Greg Robertson ’12).  Arturo is 51500 basepairs long and contains 87 coding sequences believed to encode distinct proteins.  Below is a link to the published genomic data:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/407437696

13 H-SC students are currently isolating a fresh crop of bacteriophage from the environment for characterization and molecular analysis in connection with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Science Education Alliance (SEA).

Congratulations to our student authors!!!