The current draft release, version 2.0 of the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii genome, was generated using the whole genome shotgun strategy, using only data generated here at the JGI.

Gene models for this release are currently undergoing manual curation by members of the Chlamydomonas community.This massive effort began during the Chlamydomonas Jamboree, held at the JGI during the week of Dec 8th, 2003.

Annotations can be viewed immediately from the protein pages as they become available. To search for genes that have manual annotations, please read the directions on our advanced search page.

This assembly was constructed with JAZZ, the JGI assembler, capitalizing on paired-end sequencing reads. After trimming for vector and quality, 1.8 Million reads assembled into 3211 scaffolds totaling 125 Mbp. Roughly half of the genome is contained in 72 scaffolds, all of at least 504 Kb in length. Gene models have been updated using the depth of EST/cDNA information publicly available for C. reinhardtii.

Manual review of gene models will continue through the spring, and results will be discussed at a second Jamboree due to be scheduled this coming summer.

Stanford will begin finishing the genome later this year.

We will update this site once finishing efforts are complete.

This work was performed under the auspices of the US Department of Energy's Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research Program and the by the University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract No. W-7405-Eng-48, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory under contract No. DE-AC03-76SF00098 and Los Alamos National Laboratory under contract No. W-7405-ENG-36.