Neurospora crassa Assembly and Gene Annotation

About the Neurospora_crassa genome

Neurospora crassa is a red bread mold of the phylum Ascomycota which is widely used in genetics as a model organism. The Neurospora genome, published in 2003, is approximately 40 Mb in size, and encodes about 10,000 protein-coding genes. The Genome analysis has revealed that Neurospora possesses a wide variety of epigenetics mechanisms and related genome defence mechanisms, including a process unique to fungi called Repeat-Induced Point mutation (RIP).

Annotation

Annotation for the Neurospora_crassa genomes has been derived from annotation submitted to the EMBL/Genbank/DDBJ databases; and enhanced by importing data from additional sources, principally UniProtKB and GOA. 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. The genome sequence of the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa.
   Galagan JE, Calvo SE, Borkovich KA, Selker EU, Read ND, Jaffe D, FitzHugh W, Ma LJ, Smirnov S, Purcell S et al. 2003. Nature. 422:859-868.

More information

General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.