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3 December 2008 - Updated Horse Genome Browser Available
The Sep. 2007 EquCab2 release of the horse genome (Equus
caballus) is now available in the UCSC Genome Browser. This
assembly, UCSC version equCab2, was produced by the
Broad
Institute.
The horse draft genome has been sequenced to 6.8X coverage.
Approximately 84% of the sequence has been anchored to
chromosomes, which include autosomes 1-31 and sex
chromosome X. Unanchored contigs that could not be
localized to a chromosome have been concatenated into the
virtual chromosome "chrUn", separated by gaps of
1,000 bp. The mitochondrial sequence is also available in
the Genome Browser as the virtual chromosome
"chrM".
For more details about the current assembly, see
the Broad Institute
Horse Genome Project page.
Bulk downloads of the sequence and annotation data are
available from the Genome Browser
FTP server
or the Downloads
page. These data have
specific
conditions for use.
The UCSC Horse Genome Browser was produced by Larry Meyer,
Hiram Clawson, Pauline Fujita, Brooke Rhead, and Donna
Karolchik. See the
Credits
page for a detailed list of the organizations and
individuals who contributed to this release.
7 November 2008 - Medaka Genome Browser Updated
We have updated the initial UCSC Medaka Genome Browser
(oryLat1) to correct an error with chrUn in which the gap
relationships between the contigs within their
ultracontigs were incorrect.
Read more.
17 October 2008 - Quality Assurance Engineer Job Opening:
The UCSC Genome Browser group has reopened a search for a
Quality Assurance engineer: Biological Database Testing and
User Support Technician. Applicants should have a strong
background in biology and computation, and excellent skills
in scientific writing and editing. For details see the
job listing.
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