News

12/8/2008    Release of Gene set version 4.0

This annotated release presents:

• A predicted protein gene set of 6,967 genes.
• Protein and nucleotide BLAST databases
• Precomputed results of BlastX and HMMer Analyses
• Alternative proteins predicted by various gene callers
• tRNA predictions
• RFam features

A full summary can be found here. Click here for a description of how the gene predictions were generated.

12/8/2008    Initial release of our chromosome-based sequence assembly

Initial release of chromosome-based sequence assembly of the Cryptococcus neoformans serotype A genome from strain H99. This assembly was provided by Jason Stajich (UC-Berkeley) and Fred Dietrich (Duke). The scaffolding was based on the previous release of 11X Arachne assembly (AACO02000000) and a genetic map generated by Jim Kronstad (Vancouver Genome Sequence Centre), with some additional sequencing and PCR to validate the putative joins.

The sequence traces from the Broad Institute sequencing can be downloaded from the NCBI trace repository. This genome project has been deposited at DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank under the project accession AACO00000000. This release is the third version, AACO03000000.

This initial release allows:

• BLAST searches against our genome assembly
• Downloads of the consensus sequence and additional files for the genome assembly
• Search and download a particular region of the genome assembly