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Pig - Pietrain (Pietrain_pig_v1)

Pig - Pietrain assembly and gene annotation

Assembly

The Pietrain_pig_v1 assembly was submitted by Novogene and last updated on 2022-09-26. The assembly is on the scaffold level, consisting of 139497 contigs assembled into 88436 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 80611 while the scaffold N50 is 1663542.

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

AssemblyPietrain_pig_v1, INSDC Assembly GCA_001700255.1, Aug 2016
Base Pairs2,438,316,299
Golden Path Length2,438,316,299
Annotation providerEnsembl
Annotation methodFull genebuild
Genebuild startedJan 2019
Genebuild releasedSep 2019
Genebuild last updated/patchedJun 2019
Database version116.1

Gene counts

Coding genes20,487
Non coding genes8,644
Small non coding genes2,080
Long non coding genes6,547
Misc non coding genes17
Pseudogenes1,436
Gene transcripts61,409

Other

Genscan gene predictions49,341