Ensembl Aedes

Example Data Points

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

A few example data points :

• Gene: AAEL014637
• Supercontig: supercont1.32

About the Aedes aegypti genome

Assembly

Aedes aegypti is the primary mosquito vector responsible for the transmission of both the yellow fever and dengue fever viruses.

The Aedes aegypti Liverpool LVP strain genome sequence is a joint effort between the Broad Institute and The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR). Assembly of 8x shotgun coverage was performed using the Broad's whole genome assembly package ARACHNE. The assembly presented here (AaegL1, August 2005) consists of 4,758 supercontigs, totalling 1.3 Gigabases, with a Contig N50 of 82 Kb and supercontig N50 size of 1,500 Kb.

Annotation

The annotation of the Aedes genome is a collaboration between VectorBase and TIGR. Each group generated a set of gene predictions which were merged into a single canonical set (AaegL1.1). See the brief overview for details of how each set was generated. The merging strategy will be described in the genome paper (in preparation).

What's New in Ensembl 41

Aedes aegypti News

• Compara - whole genome alignments and syntenies
  

  Whole Genome Alignments

  Chimp (Pan troglodytes)

  Owing to the new Chimp assembly and genebuild, there is a new MLAGAN primate 3-way alignment of human, chimp and macaque.
  Read more...

• Updates to mosquito data
  

  Additional microarray data from our collaborators at Imperial College has been added to Aedes and Anopheles, and corrections made to other microarray data in the latter species.
  Read more...

General News

• New animated tutorials
  A selection of Ensembl tutorials are now available online as Flash-animated presentations (with popup notes instead of a soundtrack).
  Read more...
• Compara updates
  

  Homologies

  Gene trees have been updated to include the 2X genomes and use a multifurcating species tree, and homologues added based on gene trees.
  Read more...

• Minor schema changes
  

  analysis_description

  Now has a 'displayable' flag to control whether or not it is usually displayed in the web pages

  xref

  One column has been changed and one added

  • the info_type column has addition ENUM values to give more details about xref provenance
  • A new column 'priority' supports the fetching of xrefs of the same type

  The API has of course been updated to reflect these changes

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  Read more...

More news...

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