The Pyrococcus furiosus DSM 3638 genome is 1.91 Million bp long and contains approximately 2228 predicted genes. P. furiosus was isolated from a shallow marine solfatara at Vulcano Island off southern Italy. The ceils are fermentative, sulfur-reducing, flagellated cocci with a maximal growth temperature of 103C and optimal growth at 100C. Generation times of 35 min and cell densities of more than 10^10 cells/ml have been reported. Because it is able to grow to high cell densities, and in the absence of elemental sulfur, it has become a favored source of highly thermostable enzymes (partially excerpted from Robb et al. reference below).

The sequence was released Feb. 2002 by the Utah Genome Center, and was described in Methods Enzymol 330:134-57 (2001) Robb FT, Maeder DL, Brown JR, DiRuggiero J, Stump MD, et al.  "Genomic sequence of hyperthermophile, Pyrococcus furiosus: implications for physiology and enzymology. "
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Sample position queries

A genome position can be specified by chromosomal coordinate range, COG ID, or keywords from the GenBank or TIGR description of a gene. The available chromosome/plasmid names are:

Browser Chrom/Plasmid NameLength (bp)GC Content (%)Gene CountNCBI RefSeq Accession
chr190825640.772228NC_003413

The following list shows examples of valid position queries for this genome: 

Request:Genome Browser Response:
chrDisplays the entire sequence "chr" in the browser window
chr:1-10000    Displays first ten thousand bases of the sequence "chr"
transporter    Lists all genes with "transporter" in the name or description
PF0010Display genome at position of gene PF0010


Credits

The Archaeal Genome Browsers at UCSC were developed by members of the Lowe Lab (Kevin Schneider, Katherine Pollard, Andy Pohl, Todd Lowe) and Robert Baertsch, with significant support from the UCSC Human Genome Browser group. The Archaeal Browsers are run by a slightly modified version of the UCSC Human Genome Browser system. All queries, bug reports, content corrections, suggested improvements, and new track data submissions should be sent to Todd Lowe (lowe @soe.ucsc.edu).

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