\ This track shows alignments between C. briggsae expressed sequence tags\ (ESTs) in GenBank and the genome that show signs of splicing when\ aligned against the genome. ESTs are single-read sequences, typically about \ 500 bases in length, that usually represent fragments of transcribed genes.\
\\ To be considered spliced, an EST must show \ evidence of at least one canonical intron, i.e. one that is at least\ 32 bases in length and has GT/AG ends. By requiring splicing, the level \ of contamination in the EST databases is drastically reduced\ at the expense of eliminating many genuine 3' ESTs.\ For a display of all ESTs (including unspliced), see the \ C. briggsae EST track.
\ \\ This track follows the display conventions for \ PSL alignment tracks. In dense display mode, darker shading\ indicates a larger number of aligned ESTs.
\\ The strand information (+/-) indicates the\ direction of the match between the EST and the matching\ genomic sequence. It bears no relationship to the direction\ of transcription of the RNA with which it might be associated.
\\ The description page for this track has a filter that can be used to change \ the display mode, alter the color, and include/exclude a subset of items \ within the track. This may be helpful when many items are shown in the track \ display, especially when only some are relevant to the current task.
\\ To use the filter:\
\ This track may also be configured to display base labeling, a feature that\ allows the user to display all bases in the aligning sequence or only those \ that differ from the genomic sequence. For more information about this option,\ go to the Base Coloring for Alignment Tracks page.
\ \\ To make an EST, RNA is isolated from cells and reverse\ transcribed into cDNA. Typically, the cDNA is cloned\ into a plasmid vector and a read is taken from the 5'\ and/or 3' primer. For most — but not all — ESTs, the\ reverse transcription is primed by an oligo-dT, which\ hybridizes with the poly-A tail of mature mRNA. The\ reverse transcriptase may or may not make it to the 5'\ end of the mRNA, which may or may not be degraded.
\\ In general, the 3' ESTs mark the end of transcription\ reasonably well, but the 5' ESTs may end at any point\ within the transcript. Some of the newer cap-selected\ libraries cover transcription start reasonably well. Before the \ cap-selection techniques\ emerged, some projects used random rather than poly-A\ priming in an attempt to retrieve sequence distant from the\ 3' end. These projects were successful at this, but as\ a side effect also deposited sequences from unprocessed\ mRNA and perhaps even genomic sequences into the EST databases.\ Even outside of the random-primed projects, there is a\ degree of non-mRNA contamination. Because of this, a\ single unspliced EST should be viewed with considerable\ skepticism.
\\ To generate this track, C. briggsae ESTs from GenBank were aligned \ against the genome using blat. Note that the maximum intron length\ allowed by blat is 750,000 bases, which may eliminate some ESTs with very \ long introns that might otherwise align. When a single \ EST aligned in multiple places, the alignment having the \ highest base identity was identified. Only alignments having\ a base identity level within 0.5% of the best and at least 96% base identity \ with the genomic sequence are displayed in this track.
\ \\ This track was produced at UCSC from EST sequence data\ submitted to the international public sequence databases by \ scientists worldwide.
\ \\
Benson DA, Karsch-Mizrachi I, Lipman DJ, Ostell J, Wheeler DL.\
GenBank: update.\
Nucleic Acids Res. 2004 Jan 1;32(Database issue):D23-6.\
PMID: 14681350; PMC:
\
Kent WJ.\
BLAT - the BLAST-like alignment tool.\
Genome Res. 2002 Apr;12(4):656-64.\
PMID: 11932250; PMC:
\ This track shows alignments between C. briggsae expressed sequence tags\ (ESTs) in GenBank and the genome. ESTs are single-read sequences, \ typically about 500 bases in length, that usually represent fragments of \ transcribed genes.
\ \\ This track follows the display conventions for \ PSL alignment tracks. In dense display mode, the items that\ are more darkly shaded indicate matches of better quality.
\\ The strand information (+/-) indicates the\ direction of the match between the EST and the matching\ genomic sequence. It bears no relationship to the direction\ of transcription of the RNA with which it might be associated.
\\ The description page for this track has a filter that can be used to change \ the display mode, alter the color, and include/exclude a subset of items \ within the track. This may be helpful when many items are shown in the track \ display, especially when only some are relevant to the current task.
\\ To use the filter:\
\ This track may also be configured to display base labeling, a feature that\ allows the user to display all bases in the aligning sequence or only those \ that differ from the genomic sequence. For more information about this option,\ go to the Base Coloring for Alignment Tracks page.
\ \\ To make an EST, RNA is isolated from cells and reverse\ transcribed into cDNA. Typically, the cDNA is cloned\ into a plasmid vector and a read is taken from the 5'\ and/or 3' primer. For most — but not all — ESTs, the\ reverse transcription is primed by an oligo-dT, which\ hybridizes with the poly-A tail of mature mRNA. The\ reverse transcriptase may or may not make it to the 5'\ end of the mRNA, which may or may not be degraded.
\\ In general, the 3' ESTs mark the end of transcription\ reasonably well, but the 5' ESTs may end at any point\ within the transcript. Some of the newer cap-selected\ libraries cover transcription start reasonably well. Before the \ cap-selection techniques\ emerged, some projects used random rather than poly-A\ priming in an attempt to retrieve sequence distant from the\ 3' end. These projects were successful at this, but as\ a side effect also deposited sequences from unprocessed\ mRNA and perhaps even genomic sequences into the EST databases.\ Even outside of the random-primed projects, there is a\ degree of non-mRNA contamination. Because of this, a\ single unspliced EST should be viewed with considerable\ skepticism.
\\ To generate this track, C. briggsae ESTs from GenBank were aligned \ against the genome using blat. Note that the maximum intron length\ allowed by blat is 750,000 bases, which may eliminate some ESTs with very \ long introns that might otherwise align. When a single \ EST aligned in multiple places, the alignment having the \ highest base identity was identified. Only alignments having\ a base identity level within 0.5% of the best and at least 96% base identity \ with the genomic sequence were kept.
\ \\ This track was produced at UCSC from EST sequence data\ submitted to the international public sequence databases by \ scientists worldwide.
\ \\
Benson DA, Karsch-Mizrachi I, Lipman DJ, Ostell J, Wheeler DL.\
GenBank: update.\
Nucleic Acids Res. 2004 Jan 1;32(Database issue):D23-6.\
PMID: 14681350; PMC:
\
Kent WJ.\
BLAT - the BLAST-like alignment tool.\
Genome Res. 2002 Apr;12(4):656-64.\
PMID: 11932250; PMC:
\ The mRNA track shows alignments between C. briggsae mRNAs\ in GenBank and the genome.
\ \\ This track follows the display conventions for \ PSL alignment tracks. In dense display mode, the items that\ are more darkly shaded indicate matches of better quality.
\\ The description page for this track has a filter that can be used to change \ the display mode, alter the color, and include/exclude a subset of items \ within the track. This may be helpful when many items are shown in the track \ display, especially when only some are relevant to the current task.
\\ To use the filter:\
\ This track may also be configured to display codon coloring, a feature that\ allows the user to quickly compare mRNAs against the genomic sequence. For more \ information about this option, go to the\ Codon and Base Coloring for Alignment Tracks page.
\ \\ GenBank C. briggsae mRNAs were aligned against the genome using the \ blat program. When a single mRNA aligned in multiple places, \ the alignment having the highest base identity was found. \ Only alignments having a base identity level within 0.5% of\ the best and at least 96% base identity with the genomic sequence were kept.\
\ \\ The mRNA track was produced at UCSC from mRNA sequence data\ submitted to the international public sequence databases by \ scientists worldwide.
\ \\
Benson DA, Karsch-Mizrachi I, Lipman DJ, Ostell J, Wheeler DL.\
GenBank: update.\
Nucleic Acids Res. 2004 Jan 1;32(Database issue):D23-6.\
PMID: 14681350; PMC:
\
Kent WJ.\
BLAT - the BLAST-like alignment tool.\
Genome Res. 2002 Apr;12(4):656-64.\
PMID: 11932250; PMC:
\ This track shows the draft assembly of the C. briggsae genome. \ This version was assembled from 2.05 million whole genome shotgun (WGS) reads. \ The Phusion (Mullikin, J.) assembler was used to create contigs based on \ overlap information; supercontigs were then created using read \ pair information to cross gaps. These supercontigs were assembled into mapped \ ultracontigs based on FPC fingerprint mapping with material from previously \ finished clones used to bridge gaps. The sequence data was used to choose \ primers along major ultracontigs, from which a genetic map was constructed \ yielding six chromosomes. The genetic mapping data, along with data from \ 1:1 elegans:briggsae orthologs, were used to refine ultracontigs and to order \ and orient the sequences along the C. briggsae chromosomes.
\\ In dense mode, this track depicts the contigs that make up the \ currently viewed scaffold. \ Contig boundaries are distinguished by the use of alternating gold and brown \ coloration. Where gaps\ exist between contigs, spaces are shown between the gold and brown\ blocks. The relative order and orientation of the contigs\ within a scaffold is always known; therefore, a line is drawn in the graphical\ display to bridge the blocks.
\\ All components within this track are of fragment type "W": \ whole genome shotgun contig.
\ \ map 1 altColor 230,170,40\ color 150,100,30\ group map\ longLabel Assembly from Fragments\ shortLabel Assembly\ track gold\ type bed 3 +\ visibility hide\ augustusGene AUGUSTUS genePred AUGUSTUS ab initio gene predictions v3.1 0 100 12 105 0 133 180 127 0 0 0\ This track shows ab initio predictions from the program\ AUGUSTUS (version 3.1).\ The predictions are based on the genome sequence alone.\
\ \\ For more information on the different gene tracks, see our Genes FAQ.
\ \\ Statistical signal models were built for splice sites, branch-point\ patterns, translation start sites, and the poly-A signal.\ Furthermore, models were built for the sequence content of\ protein-coding and non-coding regions as well as for the length distributions\ of different exon and intron types. Detailed descriptions of most of these different models\ can be found in Mario Stanke's\ dissertation.\ This track shows the most likely gene structure according to a\ Semi-Markov Conditional Random Field model.\ Alternative splicing transcripts were obtained with\ a sampling algorithm (--alternatives-from-sampling=true --sample=100 --minexonintronprob=0.2\ --minmeanexonintronprob=0.5 --maxtracks=3 --temperature=2).\
\ \\ The different models used by Augustus were trained on a number of different species-specific\ gene sets, which included 1000-2000 training gene structures. The --species option allows\ one to choose the species used for training the models. Different training species were used\ for the --species option when generating these predictions for different groups of\ assemblies.\
| Assembly Group | \ \ \Training Species | \ \
| Fish | \ \ \zebrafish\ \ |
| Birds | \ \ \chicken\ \ |
| Human and all other vertebrates | \ \ \human\ \ |
| Nematodes | \ \ \caenorhabditis | \ \
| Drosophila | \ \ \fly | \ \
| A. mellifera | \ \ \honeybee1 | \ \
| A. gambiae | \ \ \culex | \ \
| S. cerevisiae | \ \ \saccharomyces | \ \
\ This table describes which training species was used for a particular group of assemblies.\ When available, the closest related training species was used.\
\ \\ Stanke M, Diekhans M, Baertsch R, Haussler D.\ \ Using native and syntenically mapped cDNA alignments to improve de novo gene finding.\ Bioinformatics. 2008 Mar 1;24(5):637-44.\ PMID: 18218656\
\ \\ Stanke M, Waack S.\ \ Gene prediction with a hidden Markov model and a new intron submodel.\ Bioinformatics. 2003 Oct;19 Suppl 2:ii215-25.\ PMID: 14534192\
\ genes 1 baseColorDefault genomicCodons\ baseColorUseCds given\ color 12,105,0\ group genes\ longLabel AUGUSTUS ab initio gene predictions v3.1\ shortLabel AUGUSTUS\ track augustusGene\ type genePred\ visibility hide\ gap Gap bed 3 + Gap Locations 1 100 0 0 0 127 127 127 0 0 0\ This track depicts gaps in the assembly. These gaps - with the\ exception of intractable heterochromatic gaps - will be closed during the\ finishing process. \
\ Gaps are represented as black boxes in this track.\ If the relative order and orientation of the contigs on either side\ of the gap is known, it is a bridged gap and a white line is drawn \ through the black box representing the gap. \
\This assembly contains the following principal types of gaps:\
\ The GC percent track shows the percentage of G (guanine) and C (cytosine) bases\ in a 20,000 base window. Windows with high GC content are drawn more darkly \ than windows with low GC content. High GC content is typically associated with \ gene-rich areas.\
\\ This track was generated at UCSC.\ map 1 group map\ longLabel Percentage GC in 20,000-Base Windows\ shortLabel GC Percent\ spectrum on\ track gcPercent\ type bed 4 +\ visibility hide\ microsat Microsatellite bed 4 Microsatellites - Di-nucleotide and Tri-nucleotide Repeats 0 100 0 0 0 127 127 127 0 0 0
\ This track displays regions that are likely to be useful as microsatellite\ markers. These are sequences of at least 15 perfect di-nucleotide and \ tri-nucleotide repeats and tend to be highly polymorphic in the\ population.\
\ \\ The data shown in this track are a subset of the Simple Repeats track, \ selecting only those \ repeats of period 2 and 3, with 100% identity and no indels and with\ at least 15 copies of the repeat. The Simple Repeats track is\ created using the \ Tandem Repeats Finder. For more information about this \ program, see Benson (1999).
\ \\ Tandem Repeats Finder was written by \ Gary Benson.
\ \\
Benson G.\
\
Tandem repeats finder: a program to analyze DNA sequences.\
Nucleic Acids Res. 1999 Jan 15;27(2):573-80.\
PMID: 9862982; PMC:
\ This track shows known protein-coding and non-protein-coding genes \ for organisms other than C. briggsae, taken from the NCBI RNA reference \ sequences collection (RefSeq). The data underlying this track are \ updated weekly.
\ \\ This track follows the display conventions for \ gene prediction \ tracks.\ The color shading indicates the level of review the RefSeq record has \ undergone: predicted (light), provisional (medium), reviewed (dark).
\\ The item labels and display colors of features within this track can be\ configured through the controls at the top of the track description page. \
\ The RNAs were aligned against the C. briggsae genome using blat; those\ with an alignment of less than 15% were discarded. When a single RNA aligned \ in multiple places, the alignment having the highest base identity was \ identified. Only alignments having a base identity level within 0.5% of \ the best and at least 25% base identity with the genomic sequence were kept.\
\ \\ This track was produced at UCSC from RNA sequence data\ generated by scientists worldwide and curated by the \ NCBI RefSeq project.
\ \\
Kent WJ.\
\
BLAT--the BLAST-like alignment tool.\
Genome Res. 2002 Apr;12(4):656-64.\
PMID: 11932250; PMC:
\
Pruitt KD, Brown GR, Hiatt SM, Thibaud-Nissen F, Astashyn A, Ermolaeva O, Farrell CM, Hart J,\
Landrum MJ, McGarvey KM et al.\
\
RefSeq: an update on mammalian reference sequences.\
Nucleic Acids Res. 2014 Jan;42(Database issue):D756-63.\
PMID: 24259432; PMC:
\
Pruitt KD, Tatusova T, Maglott DR.\
\
NCBI Reference Sequence (RefSeq): a curated non-redundant sequence database of genomes, transcripts and proteins.\
Nucleic Acids Res. 2005 Jan 1;33(Database issue):D501-4.\
PMID: 15608248; PMC:
\ This track displays simple tandem repeats (possibly imperfect repeats) located\ by Tandem Repeats\ Finder (TRF) which is specialized for this purpose. These repeats can\ occur within coding regions of genes and may be quite\ polymorphic. Repeat expansions are sometimes associated with specific\ diseases.
\ \\ For more information about the TRF program, see Benson (1999).\
\ \\ TRF was written by \ Gary Benson.
\ \\
Benson G.\
\
Tandem repeats finder: a program to analyze DNA sequences.\
Nucleic Acids Res. 1999 Jan 15;27(2):573-80.\
PMID: 9862982; PMC:
\ The Twinscan program predicts genes in a manner similar to Genscan, except \ that Twinscan takes advantage of genome comparisons to improve gene prediction\ accuracy. More information and a web server can be found at\ http://mblab.wustl.edu/.
\ \\ This track follows the display conventions for \ gene prediction \ tracks.
\\ The track description page offers the following filter and configuration\ options:\
\ The Twinscan algorithm is described in Korf, I. et al. (2001) in the\ References section below.
\ \\ Thanks to Michael Brent's Computational Genomics Group at Washington \ University St. Louis for providing these data.
\ \\ Korf I, Flicek P, Duan D, Brent MR.\ Integrating genomic homology into gene structure prediction.\ Bioinformatics. 2001;17 Suppl 1:S140-8.\ PMID: 11473003\
\ genes 1 altColor 0,50,50\ color 0,100,100\ group genes\ longLabel Twinscan Gene Predictions Using C. briggsae/C. elegans WS98 Homology\ shortLabel Twinscan\ track twinscan\ type genePred twinscanPep\ visibility dense\ rmsk RepeatMasker rmsk Repeating Elements by RepeatMasker 1 149.1 0 0 0 127 127 127 1 0 0\
This track was created by using Arian Smit's
\ In full display mode, this track displays up to ten different classes of repeats:\
\ The level of color shading in the graphical display reflects the amount of \ base mismatch, base deletion, and base insertion associated with a repeat \ element. The higher the combined number of these, the lighter the shading.
\ \\ UCSC has used the most current versions of the RepeatMasker software \ and repeat libraries available to generate these data. Note that these \ versions may be newer than those that are publicly available on the Internet. \
\\ Data are generated using the RepeatMasker -s flag. Additional flags\ may be used for certain organisms. Repeats are soft-masked. Alignments may \ extend through repeats, but are not permitted to initiate in them. \ See the \ FAQ for \ more information.
\ \\ Thanks to Arian Smit, Robert Hubley and GIRI\ for providing the tools and repeat libraries used to generate this track.
\ \\ Repbase Update is described in\ Jurka J.\ Repbase update: a database and an electronic journal of repetitive elements.\ Trends Genet. 2000 Sep;16(9):418-420.
\ varRep 0 canPack off\ group varRep\ longLabel Repeating Elements by RepeatMasker\ priority 149.1\ shortLabel RepeatMasker\ spectrum on\ track rmsk\ type rmsk\ visibility dense\ chainCe2 Elegans Chain chain ce2 C. elegans (Mar. 2004 (WS120/ce2)) Chained Alignments 1 155.1 100 50 0 255 240 200 1 0 0\ This track shows alignments of C. elegans (ce2, Mar. 2004 (WS120/ce2)) to the\ C. briggsae genome using a gap scoring system that allows longer gaps \ than traditional affine gap scoring systems. It can also tolerate gaps in both\ C. elegans and C. briggsae simultaneously. These \ "double-sided" gaps can be caused by local inversions and \ overlapping deletions in both species. \
\ The chain track displays boxes joined together by either single or\ double lines. The boxes represent aligning regions.\ Single lines indicate gaps that are largely due to a deletion in the\ C. elegans assembly or an insertion in the C. briggsae \ assembly. Double lines represent more complex gaps that involve substantial\ sequence in both species. This may result from inversions, overlapping\ deletions, an abundance of local mutation, or an unsequenced gap in one\ species. In cases where multiple chains align over a particular region of\ the C. briggsae genome, the chains with single-lined gaps are often \ due to processed pseudogenes, while chains with double-lined gaps are more \ often due to paralogs and unprocessed pseudogenes.
\\ In the "pack" and "full" display\ modes, the individual feature names indicate the chromosome, strand, and\ location (in thousands) of the match for each matching alignment.
\ \ \By default, the chains to chromosome-based assemblies are colored\ based on which chromosome they map to in the aligning organism. To turn\ off the coloring, check the "off" button next to: Color\ track based on chromosome.
\\ To display only the chains of one chromosome in the aligning\ organism, enter the name of that chromosome (e.g. chr4) in box next to: \ Filter by chromosome.
\ \\ Transposons that have been inserted since the \ C. elegans/C. briggsae\ split were removed from the assemblies. The abbreviated genomes were\ aligned with blastz, and the transposons were then added back in.\ The resulting alignments were converted into axt format using the lavToAxt\ program. The axt alignments were fed into axtChain, which organizes all\ alignments between a single C. elegans chromosome and a single\ C. briggsae chromosome into a group and creates a kd-tree out\ of the gapless subsections (blocks) of the alignments. A dynamic program\ was then run over the kd-trees to find the maximally scoring chains of these\ blocks. Chains scoring below a threshold were discarded; the remaining\ chains are displayed in this track.
\ \\ Blastz was developed at Pennsylvania State University by \ Minmei Hou, Scott Schwartz, Zheng Zhang, and Webb Miller with advice from\ Ross Hardison.
\\ Lineage-specific repeats were identified by Arian Smit and his \ RepeatMasker\ program.
\\ The axtChain program was developed at the University of California at \ Santa Cruz by Jim Kent with advice from Webb Miller and David Haussler.
\\ The browser display and database storage of the chains were generated\ by Robert Baertsch and Jim Kent.
\ \\ Chiaromonte F, Yap VB, Miller W. \ Scoring pairwise genomic sequence alignments. \ Pac Symp Biocomput. 2002:115-26.\ PMID: 11928468\
\ \\
Kent WJ, Baertsch R, Hinrichs A, Miller W, Haussler D.\
Evolution's cauldron: Duplication, deletion, and rearrangement\
in the mouse and human genomes.\
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 Sep 30;100(20):11484-9.\
PMID: 14500911; PMC:
\
Schwartz S, Kent WJ, Smit A, Zhang Z, Baertsch R, Hardison R, \
Haussler D, Miller W.\
Human-Mouse Alignments with BLASTZ. \
Genome Res. 2003 Jan;13(1):103-7.\
PMID: 12529312; PMC:
\ This track displays blastz alignments of the C. elegans assembly (ce2,\ Mar. 2004 (WS120/ce2)) to the C. briggsae genome. The track has an optional \ feature that color codes alignments to indicate the chromosomes from which \ they are derived in the aligning assembly. To activate the color feature, \ click the on button next to "Color track based on\ chromosome" on the track description page.
\ \\ This track has a filter that can be used to change the display mode,\ turn on the chromosome color track, or filter the display output by\ chromosome. The filter is located at the top of the track description page,\ which is accessed via the small button to the left of the track's graphical\ display or through the link on the track's control menu.\
\ When you have finished configuring the filter, click the Submit\ button.
\ \\ These alignments were contributed by Scott Schwartz of the\ Penn State Bioinformatics\ Group. The best-in-genome filtering was done using UCSC's\ axtBest program.
\ \\ Chiaromonte F, Yap VB, Miller W.\ Scoring pairwise genomic sequence alignments.\ Pac Symp Biocomput. 2002:115-26.\ PMID: 11928468\
\ \\
Schwartz S, Kent WJ, Smit A, Zhang Z, Baertsch R, Hardison R,\
Haussler D, Miller W.\
Human-mouse alignments with BLASTZ.\
Genome Res. 2003 Jan;13(1):103-7.\
PMID: 12529312; PMC: