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About the X. tropicalis genome

Assembly

XenopusThe Xenopus tropicalis genome assembly version 4.1 [August 2005] is the fourth of a series of preliminary assembly releases by the JGI that are planned as part of the ongoing X. tropicalis genome project. This Ensembl website presents the sequence data provided by the JGI.

The reads were assembled using JAZZ, the JGI assembler, producing a genome of approximately 1.5 Gb. The assembly contains 19,501 scaffolds with an average coverage of 7.65X. Roughly half of the genome is contained in 272 scaffolds, all at least 1.56 Mb in length. In this update to the 4.0 assembly, some scaffolds showing homology to a known prokaryotic contaminant as well as non-cellular or vector contamination have been removed - see the JGI website (above) for more information.

Annotation

The gene set for Xenopus tropicalis was built using a modified version of the standard Ensembl pipeline. Both Xenopus tropicalis and Xenopus laevis proteins were used to predict gene structures. cDNAs from both species were used to add UTRs. Gene predictions were also based on Xenopus tropicalis cDNAs manually annotated in the July 2005 jamboree. Finally, gene predictions based on UniProt proteins were used to fill gaps in the annotation.

What's New in Ensembl 44

Xenopus tropicalis News

There is no Xenopus tropicalis-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.
    Read more...
  • 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.
    Read more...


More news...

Statistics

Assembly: JGI 4.1, Aug 2005
Genebuild: Ensembl, Nov 2005
Database version: 44.41e
Known genes: 5,562
Projected genes: 7,998
Novel genes: 4,913
RNA genes: 1,111
Genscan gene predictions: 66,517
Gene exons: 194,552
Gene transcripts: 28,324
Base Pairs*: 1,510,886,836
Golden Path Length**: 1,510,886,836

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

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


 

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