v 3.0 (June 30, 2008): This assembly of A. niger contains 8 chromosomes, made up of 21 scaffolds, and 3 unmapped scaffolds. 7 of the 8 chromosomes and 1 unmapped scaffold contain telomeres making A. niger's genome 34.85 MB in size.

This finished released includes 11197 gene models and annotataions mapped from v1.0 annotations of this genome. This includes user created gene models and manually curated annotations.

v.1.0 (April 7, 2006): The assembly release version 1.0 of whole genome shotgun reads was constructed with the JGI assembler, Jazz, using paired end sequencing reads at a coverage of 8.9X. After trimming for vector and quality, 365,698 reads assembled into 143 scaffolds totaling 37.1 MB. Roughly half of the genome is contained in 6 scaffolds all at least 2.0 MB in length.

The current draft release, version 1.0, includes a total of 11,200 gene models predicted and functionally annotated using the JGI annotation pipeline.

• Joint Genome Institute

• Scott Baker,PNNL

• Los Alamos National Laboratory

• Concordia University

• National Institute of Chemistry Slovenia

• CHR Hansen

• Novozymes Inc.

• Leiden University

• Biocentrum at Technical University of Denmark

• TU Vienna Institute of Chemical Engineering

• Architecture et Fonction des Macromolecules Biologique au CNRS

• TU Berlin

• Bayreuth Institute for Terrestrial Ecosystem Research

• Biotechnology Research Institute Macquarie University

This work was performed under the auspices of the US Department of Energy's Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research Program, and by the University of California, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory under contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC52-07NA27344, and Los Alamos National Laboratory under contract No. DE-AC02-06NA25396.