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Cattle - Norwegian Red (NRF) (NRF)

Cattle - Norwegian Red (NRF) assembly and gene annotation

Assembly

The NRF assembly was submitted by NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES and last updated on 2024-08-16. The assembly is on the chromosome level, consisting of 716 contigs assembled into 716 scaffolds. 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 the contigs is 93255103 while the scaffold N50 is 93255103.

Gene annotation

Genome annotation was generated using the Ensembl vertebrate annotation pipeline.

In accordance with the Fort Lauderdale Agreement, please check the publication status of the genome/assembly before publishing any genome-wide analyses using these data.

More information

General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.

Statistics

Summary

AssemblyNRF, INSDC Assembly GCA_963921495.1, Jun 2024
Base Pairs3,190,064,460
Golden Path Length3,190,064,460
Annotation providerEnsembl
Annotation methodFull genebuild
Genebuild startedDec 2024
Genebuild released
Genebuild last updated/patchedMay 2025
Database version116.1

Gene counts

Coding genes20,883
Non coding genes15,267
Small non coding genes4,001
Long non coding genes11,241
Misc non coding genes25
Pseudogenes387
Gene transcripts77,835