What's New?

March 7, 2006--Release 4

Release 4 represents an extensive manual revision of the gene predictions made in Release 3 by annotators at TIGR. See Gene Finding for details on this process.

This release of these new annotations includes:

  • A predicted protein gene set (10,701 genes).
  • A mapping of the probe sequences used on theNIAID/PFGRC oligonucleotide glass slide microarray have been incorporated as the "Oligo Probe" feature, which can be searched in Find Features and visualized using the Feature Map or Argo browsers.
  • BLAST databases for the entire assembly, as well as individal gene and protein predictions
  • Precomputed results of BlastX and HMMer Analyses
  • Alternative proteins predicted by various gene callers (Genewise, FgeneSH,FgeneSH+, GeneID)
  • tRNA predictions
  • Search and visualizations for all the features
  • Search and download a particular region of the genome assembly
  • Downloads of the consensus sequence and additional files for the genome assembly and gene predictions
  • Links between gene predictions published in previous releases

April 12, 2004
"Short" genes available for download

By request, "short" genes previously excluded by size (<100 aa) and lack of homology, are now available for download.

October 31, 2003
Release 3.1

Names for our autocalled genes have been updated in accordance to new naming guidelines from NCBI. Only the gene names were changed - no genes were added or deleted, and no changes to the gene models were made. A total of 3524 genes were renamed. A list of name changes is available for download.

July 22, 2003

Genetic Map Errata
Miscellaneous minor problems that have been identified with the current genetic map data release. When we next update the genetic map, we will incorporate these changes. Until then, please refer to the Genetic Map Errata page.

June 20, 2003

Release 3

6,300 unique ESTs were provided by Rolf Prade and Bruce Roe at Oklahoma State University.

March 28, 2003

New correction of genetic map

After the public release, we detected some minor discrepancies between Aspergillus nidulans genetic map and other data sets. This was caused by an artifact of slightly different naming systems used for generating the genetic map. Now the error has been corrected and we are happy to present you with the new version of genetic map and appreciate your comments.

Release 2, February 28, 2003

13X genome assembly available for download and BLAST search.

Aspergillus nidulans physical map with 95% of the assembly anchored to the genetic map, of which 94% are ordered and orientated. See genome maps for more details.

Assembly 1 Sequencing Facts

  • 13X genomic coverage
  • 30 Mb total length of combined contigs (30,068,514 bp)
  • 248 contigs longer than 2 kb
  • 89 supercontigs (scaffolds)
  • 121 kb average contig length (range 2-1114 kb)
  • 338 kb average supercontig length (range 2-4290 kb)
  • 282 kb contig N50 (average base lies in a contig of length >= 282 kb)
  • 2.44 Mb supercontig N50 (average base lies in a supercontig of length >= 2.44 Mb)

This assembly is created from 10X reads sequenced at the Broad Institute combined with 3X reads provided by Monsanto. See Aspergillus nidulans Assembly for details.

January 2, 2003

Public release of Monsanto's whole genome sequence of Aspergillus nidulans

As part of the Fungal Genome Initiative, we are pleased to announce a collaboration between Monsanto and Center for Genome Research. The goal of this collaboration is to release a 10X genome sequence for Aspergillus nidulans, strain FGSC-4A. As part of this collaboration, Monsanto is contributing their assembly, which represents ~3X genomic coverage, to the public. These data consist of 16,144 contigs that cover 29,123,109 bp.

In the coming months, the Broad Institute will produce additional whole genome shotgun sequence from plasmids, Fosmids and BACs and reassemble these data with those of Monsanto to generate a 10X genome assembly. After automated annotation, this assembly will be made public, scheduled for spring 2003.

Blast databases are available now for searching Monsanto's genomic sequence data.

Download Monsanto's assembly data.