Ensembl Rat

What's New in Ensembl 35

• Additional xrefs
  

  Xrefs have been re-run for Human, Mouse, Rat and Chicken.
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• Compara database
  

  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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• Variation database
  

  All variation databases now include the new consequence_type 'REGULATORY_REGION'.

• Genes on Featureview
  

  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....

• New species - Opossum
  Ensembl is pleased to announce the completion of the genebuild for the grey short-tailed opossum, Monodelphis domestica, based on assembly 2.0 from the Broad Institute.
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Karyotype

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About the Rat genome

Assembly

The latest build provides a preliminary data set based on the version 3.4 "November 2004 Update" of the rat genome assembly. In this update a 15 bp overhang was removed at the join between AABR03100354-AC117058 and the order was reversed for BACs AC133000 and AC136926.

The Rat Genome project is an international collaboration to sequence the genome of the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus). The DNA sequence is generated by Baylor College of Medicine, Celera Genomics, Genome Therapeutics, The Institute for Genome Research, and The University of British Columbia.

The rat data used on this site can be downloaded directly from Baylor College of Medicine.

Annotation

Ensembl is working with the broader rat genomics community (RGD) to provide annotation of the rat genome.

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