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Pig - Berkshire (Berkshire_pig_v1)

Pig - Berkshire assembly and gene annotation

Assembly

The Berkshire_pig_v1 assembly was submitted by Novogene and last updated on 2022-09-26. The assembly is on the scaffold level, consisting of 137661 contigs assembled into 94468 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 94651 while the scaffold N50 is 1655397.

Gene annotation

For information on this genebuild, please see the PDF document below.

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

AssemblyBerkshire_pig_v1, INSDC Assembly GCA_001700575.1, Aug 2016
Base Pairs2,434,706,773
Golden Path Length2,434,706,773
Annotation providerEnsembl
Annotation methodFull genebuild
Genebuild startedJan 2019
Genebuild releasedSep 2019
Genebuild last updated/patchedJun 2019
Database version116.1

Gene counts

Coding genes20,499
Non coding genes8,625
Small non coding genes2,062
Long non coding genes6,547
Misc non coding genes16
Pseudogenes1,447
Gene transcripts61,492

Other

Genscan gene predictions49,526