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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. 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 40

Rattus norvegicus News

  • New genebuild on Rat assembly
    A new Ensembl genebuild has been created on the existing RGSC 3.4 assembly.
    Read more...
  • New Affy mappings

    Fourteen additional Affy arrays have been mapped to their respective genomes as follows.
    Read more...

  • Rat variation database
    A new rat variation database has been released to reflect the new genebuild.

General News

  • New orthologue display - GeneTreeView
    A new Ensembl view page, GeneTreeView, displays gene orthologies as tree diagrams (example).
    Read more...
  • Core data patches

    The following non-schema changes have been made to the core database.
    Read more...

More news...

Statistics

Assembly: RGSC 3.4, Dec 2004
Genebuild: Ensembl, Feb 2006
Database version: 40.34j
Known genes: 1,621
Projected genes: 3,897
Novel genes: 17,781
Pseudogenes: 1,756
snRNA genes: 935
Mt_rRNA genes: 2
rRNA genes: 131
snoRNA genes: 579
Mt_tRNA genes: 22
misc_RNA genes: 89
miRNA genes: 453
Genscan gene predictions: 100,880
Gene exons: 247,168
Gene transcripts: 35,501
Base Pairs: 2,718,897,321
Golden Path Length: 2,482,775,711
Most common InterPro domains: Top 40 Top 500

 

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