This draft of the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii genome was generated using a whole genome shotgun strategy. Sequencing of this genome is ongoing here at the JGI. The version 1.0 assembly is currently at 9.0X using more than 2 million sequence fragments. Future releases will follow later this year. Please check back for updates.

This assembly was constructed with JAZZ, the JGI assembler, capitalizing on paired end sequencing reads. 2.19 million whole genome shotgun reads were included in this assembly, of these 1.33 million reads are in scaffolds greater than 2 Kbp. This assembly contains 4065 scaffolds, totaling 95.4 Mbp, averaging 23.4 Kbp per scaffold. Roughly half of the genome (47.6 Mbp) is contained in 542 scaffolds. Gene modeling and analysis were performed at the JGI.

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.