Schizosaccharomyces japonicus Assembly and Gene Annotation

About the Schizosaccharomyces japonicus genome

Schizosaccharomyces japonicus, unlike the other Schizosaccaromycae species, rapidly adopts a hyphal growth form

The genomic assembly used comes from the Schizosaccharomyces Comparative Genome Project, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, described in this article, and deposited in INSDC as Genome Assembly GCA_000149845.2 (WGS project AATM2000000).

Comparative functional genomics of the fission yeasts.
Rhind N, Chen Z, Yassour M, Thompson DA, Haas BJ, Habib N, Wapinski I, Roy S, Lin MF, Heiman DI et al. 2011. Science. 332:930-936.

Picture credit: Image courtesy of Nick Rhind, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Gene/transcipt that contains an open reading frame (ORF).Coding genes	4,878
Non coding genes	1,114
Small non coding genes	1,114
A gene that has homology to known protein-coding genes but contain a frameshift and/or stop codon(s) which disrupts the ORF. Thought to have arisen through duplication followed by loss of function.Pseudogenes	14
A transcript is the operational unit of a gene. In a genomic context, transcripts consist of one or more exons, with adjoining exons being separated by introns. The exons/introns are transcribed and then the introns spliced out. Transcripts may or may not encode a proteinGene transcripts	6,006