Ensembl X.tropicalis

 

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This release of X.tropicalis data is assembled into scaffolds, so there are no chromosomes available to browse. Use the BLAST and SSAHA buttons in the menu bar, left, to locate data.

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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 41

Xenopus tropicalis 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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    Read more...

More news...

Statistics

Assembly: JGI 4.1, Aug 2005
Genebuild: Ensembl, Nov 2005
Database version: 41.41b
Known genes: 5,752
Projected genes: 7,733
Novel genes: 4,988
RNA genes: 1,107
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
Most common InterPro domains: Top 40 Top 500

* 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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