Click on a chromosome for a closer view
The EquCab2 assembly is a Whole Genome Shotgun (WGS) assembly at 6.79x. A female thoroughbred named "Twilight"
was selected as the representative horse for genome sequencing. The project coordination and genome sequencing
and assembly is provided by the Broad Institute.
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 112.38 kb, and the total length of all contigs is 2.43 Gb. When the gaps between contigs in scaffolds are included, the total span of the assembly is 2.68 Gb.
The horse EquCab2 was annotated using a standard Ensembl mammalian pipeline. Predictions from vertebrate mammals as well as horse proteins have been given priority over predictions from non-vertebrate mammals. The set of predictions was been compared to 1:1 homologues genes in human and mouse, and missing homologs in the horse annotation have been recovered using exonerate. Horse and human cDNAs have been used to add UTRs to protein based predictions. The final gene-set comprises 20,737 protein-coding genes, 2,863 identified as pseudogenes and 1,580 classified as retro-transposed genes.
Ensembl release 50 will occur in July (rather than in April as originally scheduled).
Read more...
| Assembly: | Equ Cab 2, Sep 2007 |
| Genebuild: | Ensembl, Sep 2007 |
| Database version: | 49.2 |
| Known protein-coding genes: | 746 |
| Projected protein-coding genes: | 13,601 |
| Novel protein-coding genes: | 6,390 |
| Pseudogenes: | 4,443 |
| Genscan gene predictions: | 108,806 |
| Gene exons: | 210,269 |
| Gene transcripts: | 27,192 |
| Base Pairs: | 2,428,773,513 |
| Golden Path Length: | 2,500,873,361 |
| Most common InterPro domains: | Top 40 Top 500 |
© 2008 WTSI / EBI. Ensembl is available to download for public use - please see the code licence for details.
