The Dec. 2009 Haemonchus contortus (Barber Pole worm) draft assembly (Sanger Institute) was produced by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute sequencing center.

### Sample position queries

A genome position can be specified by the accession number of a sequenced genomic region, an mRNA or EST, a chromosomal coordinate range, or keywords from the GenBank description of an mRNA. The following list shows examples of valid position queries for the H. contortus genome. See the User's Guide for more information.

Request: |  | Genome Browser Response:
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ABKE01000001:1-100,000 |  | Displays first hundred thousand bases of contig ABKE01000001
ABKE01000001:100,000+2,000 |  | Displays a region of contig ABKE01000001 that spans 2000 bases, starting with position 100,000
DQ270213 |  | Displays region of mRNA with GenBank accession number DQ270213
BQ088015 |  | Displays region of EST with GenBank accession BQ088015
pseudogene |  | Lists transcribed pseudogenes
homeobox caudal |  | Lists mRNAs for caudal homeobox genes
zinc finger |  | Lists many zinc finger mRNAs
kruppel zinc finger |  | Lists only kruppel-like zinc fingers
zhang |  | Lists mRNAs deposited by scientist named Zhang
Taguchi,T. |  | Lists mRNAs deposited by co-author T. Taguchi
Use this last format for author queries. Although GenBank requires the search format Taguchi T, internally it uses the format Taguchi,T..

### Assembly details

See also: Sanger Institute project information. This draft assembly is composed of 59,708 contigs for a total size of 297,989,404 nucleotides. The largest contig, Hcon_Contig0000157, is 152,663 nucleotides. One half of the sequence, 148,994,702 bases, is contained in 5116 contigs, all of at least 13,340 bases (N50). There are 19,144,420 bases of gap, indicated by "N", in the sequence

The included mitochondrial sequence is from the genbank accession NC_010383.2.

Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are available via the Genome Browser FTP server or the Downloads page. The H. contortus browser annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the Credits page for a detailed list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to the success of this release.