Ensembl Cow

 

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Karyotype

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Cow karyotype selector chromosome 1 chromosome 16 chromosome 2 chromosome 17 chromosome 3 chromosome 18 chromosome 4 chromosome 19 chromosome 5 chromosome 20 chromosome 6 chromosome 21 chromosome 7 chromosome 22 chromosome 8 chromosome 23 chromosome 9 chromosome 24 chromosome 10 chromosome 25 chromosome 11 chromosome 26 chromosome 12 chromosome 27 chromosome 13 chromosome 28 chromosome 14 chromosome 29 chromosome 15 chromosome 30

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About the Bos taurus genome

Assembly

Cow Btau_2.0 is a preliminary assembly of the cow, Bos taurus, Hereford breed, using whole genome shotgun (WGS) reads from small insert clones and BAC end sequences. The project coordination and genome sequencing and assembly is provided by the Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine.

The Btau_2.0 release was produced by assembling whole genome shotgun reads with the Atlas genome assembly system. Several WGS libraries, with inserts of 2-4 kb, and 4-6 kb, were used to produce the data. About 23 million reads were assembled, representing about 17.7 Gb of sequence and about 6.2x coverage of the (clonable) bovine genome.

The N50 size is the length such that 50% of the assembled genome lies in blocks of the N50 size or longer. The N50 size of the contigs is 18.9 kb and the N50 of the scaffolds is 434.7 kb. The total length of all contigs is 2.62 Gb. When the gaps between contigs in scaffolds are included, the total span of the assembly is 3.1 Gb.

Annotation

The improved, 6x assembly of cow has made it possible to apply a classical Ensembl gene-build to determine the gene-set

What's New in Ensembl 39

Bos taurus News

  • Updated miRNA sets
    Micro-RNA data sets have been updated in a wide range of Ensembl species, including Chicken, Dog, Cow, Chimp, Macaque, Rat, Tetraodon, Fugu, Xenopus, and Ciona intestinalis.

General News

  • Bug fixes
    In order to fix some problems with the store() method in Gene and Transcript, DBEntryAdaptor and AttributeAdaptor now require a gene/transcript/translation dbID rather than object as one of their arguments (please see POD for details).
  • Multiple versions of genes
    The schema and API have been changed to allow multiple versions of genes, transcripts and exons, for better integration with Otter (the Ensembl-based database schema used as a backend for Havana).
    Read more...
  • New MLAGAN groups
    A new 3-way MLAGAN Primate group has been created, containing Human, Chimp and macaque.
    Read more...
  • Compara - whole genome alignments, syntenies and families

    Whome Genome Alignments.
    Read more...

More news...

Statistics

Assembly: Btau 2.0, Mar 2005
Genebuild: Ensembl, Dec 2005
Database version: 39.2c
Known genes: 6,168
Projected genes: 11,400
Novel genes: 5,663
Pseudogenes: 723
RNA genes: 2,029
Genscan gene predictions: 127,898
Gene exons: 215,926
Gene transcripts: 33,714
Base Pairs: 1,741,208,718
Golden Path Length: 2,618,420,681
Most common InterPro domains: Top 40 Top 500
 

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