Ensembl C.savignyi

Example Data Points

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

A few example data points :

• Transcript: SNAP00000081384
• Region: reftig_35:1-16756
• Region: reftig_2291

About the C.savignyi genome

Assembly

The genome of a single Ciona savignyi from San Francisco Bay was shotgun-sequenced by the Broad Institute and assembled using Arachne2. The Sidow lab at Stanford used this as a basis for the assembly [details].

The assembly consists of 374 Reftigs, totalling 174 Megabases, with a Contig N50 of 141Kb and Reftig N50 size of 1800Kb.

Annotation

The standard Ensembl mammalian pipeline was modified for annotation of the Ciona savignyi genome, owing to the lack of genomic information from closely-related species. Thus, in addition to aligning known Ciona proteins to the sequence (as per the standard pipeline), we aligned Ciona-specific cDNA and EST sequences against the genome, and then used these in conjunction with protein data from other species to build additional gene models.

What's New in Ensembl 41

Ciona savignyi News

• RNA updates
  

  Ensembl RNA data has been updated as follows:

  • New ncRNAs for Zebrafish, Chimp, Medaka, Elephant, Rabbit, Armadillo and Tenrec
  • Updated miRNAs for all chordates.

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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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