Status
[Aug 2013] The Monascus purpureus genome was sequenced using the Illumina platform and assembled with AllPathsLG (Gnerre et al., 2010).
Summary statistics for the Monascus purpureus NRRL 1596
v1.0 release are below.
| Genome Assembly | |
| Genome Assembly size (Mbp) | 23.44 |
| Sequencing read coverage depth | 102x |
| # of contigs | 319 |
| # of scaffolds | 296 |
| # of scaffolds >= 2Kbp | 285 |
| Scaffold N50 | 55 |
| Scaffold L50 (Mbp) | 0.14 |
| # of gaps | 23 |
| % of scaffold length in gaps | 0.1% |
| Three largest Scaffolds (Mbp) | 0.39, 0.38, 0.36 |
| ESTs | Data set | # sequences total | # mapped to genome | % mapped to genome |
| Ests | RNNotator assembled Illumina ESTs | 27581 | 25975 | 94.2% |
| Gene Models | FilteredModels1 | |
| length (bp) of: | average | median |
| gene | 1815 | 1565 |
| transcript | 1626 | 1389 |
| exon | 509 | 299 |
| intron | 88 | 68 |
| description: | ||
| protein length (aa) | 468 | 387 |
| exons per gene | 3.19 | 3 |
| # of gene models | 8918 |
Collaborators
Joseph
Spatafora, Oregon State University, USA
Kerry
O'Donnell, USDA, ARS.
Funding
The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.
