The compara orthology build has been updated to include the new Opossum genome, and chimp dnafrag names have been changed to take account of the re-numbering of the Chimp chromosomes (see Chimp news for more information).
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All variation databases now include the new consequence_type 'REGULATORY_REGION'.
Features which have accompanying Gene locations, e.g. some AffyProbes, now display a table of gene names and descriptions at the top of the view page. See an example....
The Chimp chromosome numbers have been changed to the new primate standard proposed by E.H.
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Ensembl data and displays for A. gambiae are made possible through a
joint effort by the Ensembl Group and VectorBase, a NIAID
Bioinformatics Resource Center. Further details, as well as additional
A. gambiae and other vector-specific data, can be found at VectorBase.org.
Ensembl presents the tenfold whole genome shotgun assembly ("MOZ2") of the PEST strain of Anopheles gambiae, as prepared by The International Anopheles Genome Project [March 2002]. The assembled portion of the genome is about 278 Mbp in length with a total of 8,987 unique scaffolds, the largest scaffold being 23.1 Mbp.
Approximately 82% of the sequence has been assigned to chromosomal locations; chromosome arms 2L, 2R, 3L, 3R, and X are represented by 9, 20, 20, 8, and 10 large scaffolds respectively. No scaffolds have yet been assigned to the Y chromosome. Ensembl shows the unassigned scaffolds, concatenated together in arbitrary order, as an artificial unknown 'chromosome' (UNKN).
Ensembl re-annotated the assembly in October 2003 (release 2a) to provide improved genome-wide sets of gene, transcript and protein predictions, plus additional information including new EST mappings, additional repeats (library available), and ab initio transcript predictions from Ian Korf's SNAP program. Protein predictions identified by collaborators as probably arising from bacterial contamination in the assembly were removed from the set in April 2004 (release 2b).
The genomic sequence and initial annotation of A. gambiae was published in October 2002 in Science (abstract). An update appeared in Trends in Parasitology. See also this EMBL press release (PDF).
| Assembly: | MOZ 2a, Mar 2002 |
| Genebuild: | Ensembl, Oct 2003 |
| Database version: | 35.2g |
| Gene predictions : | 14,707 |
| Gene exons: | 57,688 |
| Gene transcripts: | 16,148 |
| Base Pairs: | 278,253,050 |
| Golden Path Length: | 278,215,782 |
| Most common InterPro domains: | Top 40 Top 500 |
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