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Example Data Points

This release of Felis catus data is assembled into scaffolds, so there are no chromosomes available to browse.

A few example data points :

• GeneScaffold: GeneScaffold_3416
• Gene: ENSFCAG00000000092
• Protein: ENSFCAP00000000085

About the Cat genome

Assembly

This is the second release of the low-coverage 1.87X assembly of the domestic cat (Felis catus). The genome sequencing was performed by Agencourt Bioscience and assembly 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 length for supercontigs is 45.22 kb and is 2.38 kb for contigs. The total number of bases in supercontigs is 3.94 Gb and in contigs is 1.64 Gb.

Annotation

A standard Ensembl projection build was carried out whereby genes from the new human gene set (from release 49) were projected onto the cat assembly.

Owing to the fragmentary nature of this preliminary assembly, it was necessary to arrange some scaffolds into "gene-scaffold" super-structures, in order to present complete genes. There are 5280 such gene-scaffolds, with identifiers of the form "GeneScaffold_1".

• Details of the gene-scaffold construction and subsequent gene-build

What's New in Ensembl 50

Felis catus News

• Cat reprojection
  The cat genebuild has been updated by projecting the latest human gene set onto the cat assembly.
• Non-coding genes
  These have been updated for most species, including an miRNA update and HGNC names where possible.
• Multiple alignments
  

  The multiple alignments are being extended with new species and 2X genomes.
  Read more...

• Blastz-net alignments
  

  The Blastz-net alignments have been updated for the following species.
  Read more...

General News

• Canonical Transcripts
  

  Canonical transcripts have been defined for all genes in the core databases.
  Read more...

More news...

Statistics

How the statistics are calculated