In this project you will help us to decode genes found in bacteria that cause serious infections and disease in humans. The genes that you will classify are important for the growth and survival of bacteria, the development of antibiotic resistance or the focus of vaccine development. Your work will help us to identify genetic types that result in differences among bacteria, for example making them more likely to cause disease or more resistant to a drug or antibiotic. The genomic data you shall investigate are part of the PubMLST database, based at the University of Oxford.

 

With thousands of genomes being sequenced all over the world each day, each of which contains thousands of genes, there is a very large amount of data crunching to do and a limit to how much the international community of scientists working in the genomics field can do on their own! That is where you and the Zooniverse can help.