Ensembl Zebrafish

Karyotype

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About the Zebrafish genome

The zebrafish genome project is a collaboration between the Sanger Institute and the zebrafish community, announced during the Sanger Institute Zebrafish Workshop 2000 and was started in February 2001.

Assembly

This Ensembl website features the zebrafish assembly version 6 (Zv6), as released on 30 March 2006. This assembly was produced by integrating finished clone sequence from the physical map with whole genome shotgun assembly sequence (more information).

The zebrafish sequencing project is funded by the Wellcome Trust.

You may export data from this site. Please see the Conditions of use for these data.

Annotation

This site provides a full Ensembl gene set for Zv6. This release is based on a strategy where transcripts are generated based on protein evidence and clustered in genes. Aligned zebrafish cDNAs are used to add UTR regions. Genes are named based on the alignment of their coding regions to known entries in public databases; ZFIN genes have priority in this process.

What's New in Ensembl 43

Danio rerio News

• New ZFIN data
  Ensembl Zebrafish expression pattern xrefs and dna align features have been updated with new data from the ZFIN project.
• Affy mapping
  Xrefs have been added for Affymetrix data mapped to the Cow, Yeast, Human and Zebrafish genomes.

General News

• A faster ContigView
  ContigView now displays information faster. Each open panel in ContigView is prepared in parallel, and then returned to the page when complete. This results in faster page loads.
• New - Table view
  In ContigView you can now click on the name of a feature alignment track and select 'DAS Table View' (or for DAS tracks 'view DAS reponse') from the zmenu.
  Read more...
• New search option
  It is now possible to select whether to search either the Ensembl website or the EBI site when using Ensembl search.

More news...

Statistics

* Total number of base pairs = sum of lengths of DNA table

** Reference assembly (Golden path) length = sum of non-redundant top level seq regions