Status

The Ostreococcus tauri genome, release v2.0, was sequenced at Genopole Languedoc-Roussillon and underwent assembly and the initial round of annotation at Ghent University, Belgium. The assembly contains 125,586 reads assembled into 20 chromosomes and 98 scaffolds. This release includes a total of 7,725 predicted gene models produced through the collaboration of JGI and Ghent University annotation teams.

These preliminary sets of gene models and annotations are being refined through further comparative analysis and manual curation.

Collaborators

This project is a collaborative effort involving:

• Ghent University, Belgium
• Genopole Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, France
• Laboratoire Arago, France
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California - San Diego, CA
• US DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) - Walnut Creek, CA

Links

• Ostreococcus tauri at Ghent University, Belgium
• Ostreococcus lucimarinus home page (JGI)

References

• Genome analysis of the smallest free-living eukaryote Ostreococcus tauri unveils many unique features. Derelle E, Ferraz C, Rombauts S, Rouze P, Worden AZ, Robbens S, Partensky F, Degroeve S, Echeynie S, Cooke R, Saeys Y, Wuyts J, Jabbari K, Bowler C, Panaud O, Piegu B, Ball SG, Ral JP, Bouget FY, Piganeau G, De Baets B, Picard A, Delseny M, Demaille J, Van de Peer Y, Moreau H. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A - vol. 103 | no. 31 | 11647-11652 (2007) [DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0604795103]

• The tiny eukaryote Ostreococcus provides genomic insights into the paradox of plankton speciation. Palenik B, Grimwood J, Aerts A, Rouze P, Salamov A, Putnam N, Dupont C, Jorgensen R, Derelle E, Rombauts S, Zhou K, Otillar R, Merchant SS, Podell S, Gaasterland T, Napoli C, Gendler K, Manuell A, Tai V, Vallon O, Piganeau G, Jancek S, Heijde M, Jabbari K, Bowler C, Lohr M, Robbens S, Werner G, Dubchak I, Pazour GJ, Ren Q, Paulsen I, Delwiche C, Schmutz J, Rokhsar D, Van de Peer Y, Moreau H, Grigoriev IV. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A - vol. 104 | no. 18 | 7705-7710 (2007) [DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0611046104]

Funding

This work was performed under the auspices of the US Department of Energy's Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research Program and the by the University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract No. W-7405-Eng-48, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory under contract No. DE-AC03-76SF00098 and Los Alamos National Laboratory under contract No. W-7405-ENG-36.

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