Aspergillus oryzae RIB40 Assembly and Gene Annotation

About the Aspergillus oryzae genome

Aspergillus oryzae is a filamentous fungus used in Chinese and other East Asian cuisines to ferment soybeans for making soy sauce and fermented bean paste, and also to saccharify rice, other grains, and potatoes in the making of alcoholic beverages such as huangjiu, sake, makgeolli and shōchū.

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The National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE), Japan and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan, in collaboration with other members of the A. oryzae Genome Analysis Consortium, sequenced the genome of Aspergillus oryzae strain RIB40 at 9X coverage using whole genome shotgun (WGS) and clone-based sequencing.

This genome consists of a nuclear genome assembly represented by eight chromosomes (assembled from 24 entries) and three unplaced contigs (AP007156, AP007160 and AP007177) and a complete mitochondrial genome (AP007176). The assembly and scaffolds were validated by optical mapping.

First-pass automated annotation was carried out using the Cluster of Orthologous Groups (COG) classification.

References

1. CADRE: the Central Aspergillus Data REpository.
   Mabey JE, Anderson MJ, Giles PF, Miller CJ, Attwood TK, Paton NW, Bornberg-Bauer E, Robson GD, Oliver SG, Denning DW. 2004. Nucleic Acids Res.. 32:D401-5.
2. Genome sequencing and analysis of Aspergillus oryzae.
   Machida M, Asai K, Sano M, Tanaka T, Kumagai T, Terai G, Kusumoto K, Arima T, Akita O, Kashiwagi Y et al. 2005. Nature. 438:1157-1161.

More information

General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.