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About the Rat genome

Assembly

RatThe 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. We have also participated in the STAR consortium to help identify and map single nucleotide polymorphisms in the rat.

The latest release (August 2006) uses a new rat-specific repeat library, and takes advantage of additional cDNAs and ESTs which have been published since the original RGSC 3.4 genebuild, with the result that around 1800 new gene predictions have been added.

What's New in Ensembl 49

Rattus norvegicus News

  • Minor updates

    A number of minor changes have been made to the core databases.
    Read more...

  • Variation updates
    New variation databases have been released for human, mouse, chicken and zebrafish (dbSNP 128) and rat (dbSNP 126). Transcript variation has been rerun for dog, platypus, chimp, and tetraodon due to gene set changes.

General News

  • Release schedule

    Ensembl release 50 will occur in July (rather than in April as originally scheduled).
    Read more...

  • API changes - regulatory features
    Regulatory feature support has been moved from the core API to the functional genomics API. More information about using the new code...
  • Removal of viral genes
    We have removed a total of about 1200 viral genes from the following species.
    Read more...

More news...

Statistics

Assembly: RGSC 3.4, Dec 2004
Genebuild: Ensembl, Feb 2006
Database version: 49.34s
Known protein-coding genes: 17,738
Projected protein-coding genes: 1,919
Novel protein-coding genes: 2,846
Pseudogenes: 1,756
RNA genes: 2,924
Genscan gene predictions: 100,193
Gene exons: 246,158
Gene transcripts: 34,704
SNPs: 2,854,253
Base Pairs: 2,507,066,654
Golden Path Length: 2,718,897,321
Most common InterPro domains: Top 40 Top 500

How the statistics are calculated


 

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