Draft Genome of Australian Environmental Strain WM 09.24 of the Opportunistic Human Pathogen Scedosporium aurantiacum

Åsa Pérez-Bercoff; Alexie Papanicolaou; Marc Ramsperger; Jashanpreet Kaur; Hardip R Patel; Azian Harun; Shu Yao Duan; Liam Elbourne; Jean-Philippe Bouchara; Ian T Paulsen; Helena Nevalainen; Wieland Meyer; Gavin A Huttley

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01526-14

Draft Genome of Australian Environmental Strain WM 09.24 of the Opportunistic Human Pathogen Scedosporium aurantiacum

Genome Announc. 2015 Feb 12;3(1):e01526-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01526-14.

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Molecular Mycology Research Laboratory, Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, Sydney Medical School-Westmead Hospital, University of Sydney, Westmead Millennium Institute, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
² Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
³ John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Arts and Culture Trust, Canberra, Australia.
⁴ Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, University of Western Sydney, Arts and Culture Trust, Penrith, Australia.
⁵ Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Molecular Mycology Research Laboratory, Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, Sydney Medical School-Westmead Hospital, University of Sydney, Westmead Millennium Institute, Sydney, NSW, Australia wieland.meyer@sydney.edu.au gavin.huttley@anu.edu.au.
⁶ John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Arts and Culture Trust, Canberra, Australia wieland.meyer@sydney.edu.au gavin.huttley@anu.edu.au.

Abstract

We report here the first genome assembly and annotation of the human-pathogenic fungus Scedosporium aurantiacum, with a predicted 10,525 genes, and 11,661 transcripts. The strain WM 09.24 was isolated from the environment at Circular Quay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.