Opossum
Monodelphis domestica
Photo courtesy of Paul Samollow,
Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research,
San Antonio.
(NHGRI PressPhotos)

The Oct. 2006 Monodelphis domestica draft assembly (NCBI project 12561, accession AAFR03000000) was produced by The Broad Institute. For more information about this assembly, see MonDom5 in the NCBI Assembly database.

Sample position queries

A genome position can be specified by the accession number of a sequenced genomic region, an mRNA or EST, a chromosomal coordinate range, or keywords from the GenBank description of an mRNA. The following list shows examples of valid position queries for the Opossum genome. See the User's Guide for more information.

Request:   Genome Browser Response:
 
chrX   Displays all of chromosome X
chr3:1-1000000   Displays first million bases of chr 3
chr3:1000000+2000 Displays a region of chr 3 that spans 2000 bases, starting with position 1000000
 
AF049753   Displays region of mRNA with GenBank accession number AF049753
EC091556   Displays region of EST with GenBank accession EC091556
CLOCK Displays a list of genomic regions showing tBLASTn alignment of peptides from human CLOCK gene
NM_001033969
Displays the region of genome with RefSeq identifier NM_001033969, the BCRA1 gene

immunoglobulin Lists immunoglobulin regions
immunoglobulin light chain kappa Lists only immunoglobulin light chain kappa mRNAs
miller Lists mRNAs deposited by scientists named Miller
Miska,K.B. Lists mRNAs deposited by co-author K.B. Miska

Use this last format for author queries. Although GenBank requires the search format Miska KB, internally it uses the format Miska,K.B.


Assembly details

This draft of the opossum genome has approximately 6.8X coverage. The assembly length is nearly 3.61 billion bp including gaps (3.50 billion bp without gaps) contained on chromosomes 1-8, X, M (mitochondrial DNA), and Un (unmapped clone contigs). The N50 of the scaffolds including gaps is 60,456 kb; the N50 without gaps is 110 kb. The N50 size is the length such that 50% of the assembled genome lies in blocks of the N50 size or longer.

The Broad Institute reports the following statistics for the monDom5 assembly:

The monDom5 sequence and annotation data can be downloaded from the Genome Browser FTP server or Downloads page. These data have specific conditions for use.

Many thanks to The Broad Institute for the opossum assembly data. The monDom5 annotation tracks were generated by UCSC and collaborators worldwide. See the Credits page for a detailed list of the organizations and individuals who contributed to this release.


GenBank Pipeline Details

For the purposes of the GenBank alignment pipeline, this assembly is considered to be: finished.