Schizosaccharomyces pombe Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Schizosaccharomyces pombe 972h-

Schizosaccharomyces pombe, also called "fission yeast (Schizosaccharomyces pombe 972h-)", is a species of yeast used in traditional brewing and as a model organism in molecular and cell biology. It is a unicellular eukaryote, whose cells are rod-shaped. Cells typically measure 3 to 4 micrometres in diameter and 7 to 14 micrometres in length. Its genome, which is approximately 14.1 million base pairs, is estimated to contain 4,970 protein-coding genes and at least 450 non-coding RNAs.

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Taxonomy ID 4896

(Text from Wikipedia.)

More information General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia

Annotation

The fission yeast genome was published in 2002; Genome size is ~14.1Mb and there are ~5000 annotated protein coding genes and ~1600 annotated RNA genes. The canonical sequence and annotation of the fission yeast genome is maintained by PomBase.org. The genome sequence was released in 2007, but excludes the tandem DNA repeats on chromosome 3, and 4 gaps remain in the centromeres and telomeres which are represented by 100Ns.

The annotations are as of release v57 of PomBase from February 2016

Variation

The variation data provided by this site were imported from the European Variation Archive (EVA) from the data generated by Jeffares et al (2015).

References

1. The genome sequence of Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
   Wood V, Gwilliam R, Rajandream MA, Lyne M, Lyne R, Stewart A, Sgouros J, Peat N, Hayles J, ... et al. 2002. Nature. 415:871-880.
2. The genomic and phenotypic diversity of Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
   Jeffares DC, Rallis C, Rieux A, Speed D, Pevorovsk M, Mourier T, Marsellach FX, Iqbal Z, Lau W, Cheng TM et al. 2015. Nat. Genet.. 47:235-241.

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Other Data

The ESTs were downloaded from dbEST and aligned to the genome using exonerate.