Ensembl Cat

Example Data Points

This release of Felis catus data is assembled into scaffolds, so there are no chromosomes available to browse.

A few example data points :

• GeneScaffold: GeneScaffold_3416
• Gene: ENSFCAG00000000092
• Protein: ENSFCAP00000000085

About the Cat genome

Assembly

This is the first release of the low-coverage 2X assembly of the domestic cat (Felis catus). The genome sequencing was performed by Agencourt Bioscience and assembly provided by the Broad Institute.

The N50 size is the length such that 50% of the assembled genome lies in blocks of the N50 size or longer. The N50 length for supercontigs is 45.22 kb and is 2.38 kb for contigs. The total number of bases in supercontigs is 3.94 Gb and in contigs is 1.64 Gb.

Annotation

Owing to the fragmentary nature of this preliminary assembly, it was necessary to arrange some scaffolds into "gene-scaffold" super-structures, in order to present complete genes. There are 4453 such gene-scaffolds, with identifiers of the form "GeneScaffold_1". It should be noted that for this projection genebuild a combination of human and dog genes were used, where dog genes were used to fill gaps where no human gene had been projected onto the cat sequence.

Mammalian Genome Project

Felis catus is one of 16 mammals that will be sequenced as part of the Mammalian Genome Project, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). A group of species were chosen to maximise the branch length of the evolutionary tree while representing the diversity of mammalian species. Low-coverage 2X assemblies will be produced for these mammals and used in alignments for cross-species comparison. The aim is to increase our understanding of functional elements, especially in the human genome.

What's New in Ensembl 44

Felis catus News

There is no Felis catus-specific news this release.

General News

• ncRNAs for Ensembl chordates
  All Ensembl genebuild databases (i.e. excluding the imported invertebrate databases for mosquitoes, fruit fly, worm and yeast) have been updated with new ncRNA data.
• Compara updates
  

  Pairwise alignments

  • Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) OANA5 BLASTZ_NET vs Mus musculus (NCBIM36)
  • Cat (Felis catus) BLASTZ_NET vs Canis familiaris (BROADD2)
  • Treeshrew (Tupaia belangeri) BLASTZ_NET vs Homo sapiens (NCBI36)
  • Hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) BLASTZ_NET vs Homo sapiens (NCBI36)
  • Opossum (Monodelphis domestica) BROAD5 (new assembly) BLASTZ_NET vs Homo sapiens (NCBI36)
  • Bushbaby (Otolemur garnetti) (2X genome, new species) BLASTZ_NET vs Homo sapiens (NCBI36)
  • Ground squirrel (Spermophilus tridecemlineatus) (2X genome, new species) BLASTZ_NET vs Homo sapiens (NCBI36)
  • Little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus) (2X genome, new species) BLASTZ_NET vs Homo sapiens (NCBI36)

  Multiple alignments

  PECAN (vertebrates) 10 ways.
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• Schema changes
  There have been no major schema changes this release, however we are starting to systematically work through the schema to make sure that all column types are appropriate for the data they are likely to hold.
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Statistics

* Total number of base pairs = sum of lengths of DNA table

** Reference assembly (Golden path) length = sum of non-redundant top level seq regions