[Genome] Cat Assembly Available in Genome Browser

[Brooke Rhead]

The Mar. 2006 release of Felis catus (UCSC version felCat3) is now 
available in the Genome Browser. This assembly was produced by The Broad 
Institute of MIT/Harvard and Agencourt Bioscience.

The felCat3 genome has been sequenced to 2X coverage and consists of 
217,790 scaffolds. The total contig length for this assembly is 
approximately 1.6 Gb spanning nearly 4.0 Gb (with 60.1% in gaps). There 
are 749,376 contigs, with an N50 length of 2,506 bases. There are 
149,283 supercontigs, with an N50 length of 49,769 bases (not including 
gaps). The N50 size is the length such that 50% of the assembled genome 
lies in blocks of the N50 size or longer.

The felCat3 sequence and annotation data can be downloaded from the 
Genome Browser FTP server 
(ftp://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/felCat3/) or Downloads page 
(http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/downloads.html#cat). Please review the 
guidelines (http://hgwdev.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/credits.html#cat_use) 
for using the cat assembly data.

Many thanks to The Broad Institute for providing these data. The UCSC 
cat Genome Browser was produced by Heather Trumbower, Angie Hinrichs, 
Mark Diekhans, Brooke Rhead, and Archana Thakkapallayil. The initial set 
of annotation tracks was generated by the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics 
Group. See the Genome Browser Credits page 
(http://hgwdev.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/credits.html#cat_credits) for a 
detailed list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to 
the release of this browser.

Future plans for the felCat3 browser include a Human Proteins track and 
a Conservation track.

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Brooke Rhead
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group