Draft Genome Sequences of Two Aspergillus fumigatus Strains, Isolated from the International Space Station

Nitin Kumar Singh; Adriana Blachowicz; Aleksandra Checinska; Clay Wang; Kasthuri Venkateswaran

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00553-16

Draft Genome Sequences of Two Aspergillus fumigatus Strains, Isolated from the International Space Station

Genome Announc. 2016 Jul 14;4(4):e00553-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00553-16.

Authors

Nitin Kumar Singh¹, Adriana Blachowicz¹, Aleksandra Checinska¹, Clay Wang², Kasthuri Venkateswaran³

Affiliations

¹ Biotechnology and Planetary Protection Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA.
² Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
³ Biotechnology and Planetary Protection Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA kjvenkat@jpl.nasa.gov.

Abstract

Draft genome sequences of Aspergillus fumigatus strains (ISSFT-021 and IF1SW-F4), opportunistic pathogens isolated from the International Space Station (ISS), were assembled to facilitate investigations of the nature of the virulence characteristics of the ISS strains to other clinical strains isolated on Earth.