Pigs in sequence space: a 0.66X coverage pig genome survey based on shotgun sequencing.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Comparative whole genome analysis of Mammalia can benefit from the addition of more species. The pig is an obvious choice due to its economic and medical importance as well as its evolutionary position in the artiodactyls.

Results

We have generated approximately 3.84 million shotgun sequences (0.66X coverage) from the pig genome. The data are hereby released (NCBI Trace repository with center name "SDJVP", and project name "Sino-Danish Pig Genome Project") together with an initial evolutionary analysis. The non-repetitive fraction of the sequences was aligned to the UCSC human-mouse alignment and the resulting three-species alignments were annotated using the human genome annotation. Ultra-conserved elements and miRNAs were identified. The results show that for ea

SUBMITTER: Wernersson R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1142312 | biostudies-literature | 2005 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature