Ensembl Fruitfly

 

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About the Fruitfly genome

Assembly and Annotation

fruitfly The data displayed on the Ensembl Fruitfly site is a compendium of data from different sources: The euchromatic sequence is based on BDGP assembly release 4, whereas the annotations of the euchromatic regions displayed in Ensembl are based on data imported from flybase rel.4.2.1 (dated 20050903).

For the heterochromatic regions sequence was provided by DHGP (release 3.2). The annotations on the heterochromatin are imported from gff-files published by flybase (release 3.2b2, dated 20050110). No additional gene build has been carried out, however repeats, blast hits from the Swall database and protein features have been computed through the Ensembl pipeline.

We have included Drosophila into the Ensembl system to allow people to access the Fly genome through the Ensembl user interface (both for visualisation and data mining) and to provide cross-species integration throught our comparative genomics resources (such as homologous gene links and family pages).

The canonical data for Drosophila is managed at FlyBase and we are working in partnership with them to provide feedback on their resources.

What's New in Ensembl 38

Drosophila melanogaster News

  • Import of FlyBase 4.2.1
    Ensembl Fruitfly has been updated with an import of the most recent FlyBase release, version 4.2.1.
    Read more...
  • New Fruitfly regulatory regions
    A set of 120 likely transcription factor binding sites was identified from a large set of Drosophila promoter regions, using the Tiffin pipeline.
    Read more...
  • Compara whole genome alignments

    The following updates have been made to ensembl_compara.
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General News

  • New navigation options in ContigView

    ContigView navigation has been enhanced with new popup menus and navigation features.
    Read more...

  • New xrefs, including unmapped objects

    The following xrefs have been added/updated.
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More news...

Statistics

Assembly: BDGP 4, July 2005
Genebuild: FlyBase, Sep 2005
Database version: 38.42
Known genes: 4,660
Novel genes: 9,325
Pseudogenes: 50
RNA genes: 612
Genscan gene predictions: 17,578
Gene exons: 65,987
Gene transcripts: 20,283
Base Pairs: 144,138,837
Golden Path Length: 144,133,057
Most common InterPro domains: Top 40 Top 500

 

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