Oryza punctata Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Oryza punctata

Oryza punctata is a wild rice species native to Africa. Breeders are interested because of demonstrated resistance to bacterial blight and brown plant hoppers. O. punctata, a diploid, belongs to the O. officinalis complex within the Oryzeae genome groups, and belongs to the BB genome type. It can be found in open or semi-open habitats such as forest margins, grassland and thickets, scrub lands, open bush or shifting cultivation fields, and rice fields. It has 12 chromosomes and a nuclear genome size of 423Mb (flow cytometry). This work was part of the OGE project funded by NSF Award #1026200.

Assembly

The genome sequence was generated and assembled by the Arizona Genomics Institute (AGI) using accession IRGC105690. The sequence data were generated by 454 and Illumina and assembled with Newbler and All Paths LG. The estimated coverage from the WGS was 130x. Total sequence length 393,816,603 bp; Number of contigs 16,598; Contig N50 43,035 bp.

Annotation

Protein-coding gene annotation was performed with evidence-based MAKER-P genome annotation pipeline. Non coding RNA genes were predicted with Infernal and tRNA genes with tRNAscan. RepeatMasker was used to annotate repeats and transposable elements with Oryza-specific de novo repeat libraries. These analyses were conducted at Arizona Genomics Institute (AGI) led by Dr. Rod Wing.

References

1. Genomes of 13 domesticated and wild rice relatives highlight genetic conservation, turnover and innovation across the genus Oryza.
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2. The International Oryza Map Alignment Project: development of a genus-wide comparative genomics platform to help solve the 9 billion-people question.
   Jacquemin J, Bhatia D, Singh K, Wing RA..

Picture credit: Paul Sanchez, Arizona Genomics Institute.

Gramene/Ensembl Genomes Annotation

Additional annotations generated by the Gramene and Ensembl Plants project include:

• Gene phylogenetic trees with other Gramene species.
• LastZ Whole Genome Alignment to Arabidopsis thaliana, Oryza sativa Japonica (IRGSP v1) and other Oryza AA genomes.
• Orthologue based DAGchainer synteny detection against other AA genomes.
• Mapping to the genome of multiple sequence-based feature sets using Gramene BLAT pipeline.
• Identification of various repeat features by programs such as RepeatMasker with MIPS and AGI repeat libraries, and Dust, TRF.

Links

• International Rice Genome Sequencing Consortium (IRGSP)

More information

General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.