Tuber melanosporum Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Tuber melanosporum Mel28

Tuber melanosporum, called the black truffle, Périgord truffle or French black truffle, is a species of truffle native to Southern Europe. It is one of the most expensive edible fungi in the world. In 2013, the truffle cost between 1,000 and 2,000 euros per kilogram.

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

Assembly

The genome of Tuber melanosporum was sequenced and assembled by Genoscope using a whole-genome shotgun strategy (WGS). The draft genome comprises ~125Mb at 10x coverage, and is the largest and most complex fungal genome sequenced to date.

Annotation

Annotation of Tuber melanosporum was imported from the data files provided by Genoscope. Non coding RNA genes have been annotated using tRNAScan-SE (Lowe, T.M. and Eddy, S.R. 1997), RFAM (Griffiths-Jones et al 2005), and RNAmmer (Lagesen K.,et al 2007); additional analysis tools have also been applied.

References

1. Perigord black truffle genome uncovers evolutionary origins and mechanisms of symbiosis.
   Martin F, Kohler A, Murat C, Balestrini R, Coutinho PM, Jaillon O, Montanini B, Morin E, Noel B, Percudani R et al. 2010. Nature. 464:1033-1038.

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Other data

• EST sequences aligned to the genome using Exonerate [View data]

More information

General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.