Yarrowia lipolytica Assembly and Gene Annotation

About the Yarrowia lipolytica genome

Yarrowia lipolytica is a yeast belonging to the Ascomycota which can be found in a range of natural environments from foodstuffs to oil fields. Yarrowia can use a wide variety of carbon sources, and hence has a variety of industrial applications.

Picture credit: Dr. Andreas Aurich/UFZ

Assembly

Yarrowia lipolytica has a haploid genome of approx. 20Mb in 6 chromosomes and has been sequenced by the Genolevures Consortium. The current assembly has been loaded from the records for the submitted INSDC genome assembly GCA_000002525.

Annotation

Gene models have been created using on feature annotation from the corresponding INSDC records submitted by the Genolevures Consortium. 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. Genome evolution in yeasts.
   Dujon B, Sherman D, Fischer G, Durrens P, Casaregola S, Lafontaine I, De Montigny J, Marck C, Neuvglise C, Talla E et al. 2004. Nature. 430:35-44.

More information

General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.