{"id":12117,"date":"2023-09-18T14:17:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T18:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/?p=12117"},"modified":"2023-09-18T14:17:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T18:17:35","slug":"new-fungal-alignments-cgv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/2023\/09\/18\/new-fungal-alignments-cgv\/","title":{"rendered":"New Fungal Alignments Available in the Comparative Genome Viewer (CGV)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Fungal pathogens are a growing threat to global public health. To promote awareness of this issue, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has established September 18 -22 as <\/span>Fungal Disease Awareness Week<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In honor of this week, we\u2019re highlighting whole genome alignments for fungal pathogens that are now available in the <\/span>Comparative Genome Viewer (CGV)<\/span><\/a> \u2013 NCBI\u2019s latest genome visualization tool.\u202f Alignment displays in CGV help you identify rearrangements and differences in genomic structure such as deletions, inversions, and translocations. These differences can be important for understanding genome plasticity, genetic diversity within species (<\/span>PMC8640552<\/span><\/a>) and the response to environmental stresses such as exposure to anti-fungal drugs (<\/span>PMC5555451<\/span><\/a>).\u202f\u202f\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n CGV provides alignments for many species on the World Health Organization (WHO) <\/span>prioritized list of fungal pathogens<\/span><\/a> as well genome alignments of other fungi of medical, agricultural, or food production interest.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n You can explore cross-strain and cross-species genome alignments of several of these pathogens in <\/span>CGV<\/span><\/a>. Relevant species and some alignment partners are listed in the table below.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n